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I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
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The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
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There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
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