A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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