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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Topic: Ability
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Topic: Ability
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Topic: Age
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A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Topic: Amusement
Source: None
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Topic: Books and Reading
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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
Topic: Buying
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Topic: Cats
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Things do not change; we change.
Topic: Change
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Things do not change, we do.
Topic: Change
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Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
Topic: Charity
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If you give money, spend yourself with it.
Topic: Charity
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Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
Topic: Conformity
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Topic: Conformity
Source: None
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Topic: Death / Immortality
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Topic: Despair
Source: None
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Topic: Desperation
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Topic: Disappointments
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Topic: Doubt
Source: None
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Topic: Dream
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If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Topic: Dream
Source: None
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Topic: Dreams
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Topic: Dreams
Source: None
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a wearer of new clothes.
Topic: Dress
Source: None
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A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Topic: Earth
Source: None
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What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?
Topic: Effort
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
Topic: Emotion`
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm
Topic: Enthusiasm
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We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
Topic: Faith
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Topic: Faith
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Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Topic: Fame
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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Topic: Fame
Source: None
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Topic: Friendship
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Topic: Games
Source: None
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Topic: Generations
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Topic: Generations
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Topic: Goals
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LightWinged Smoke
Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn,
Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
By night star-veiling, and by day
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
-Henry David Thoreau-.
Topic: Grace
Source: None
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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
Topic: Haste
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Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
Topic: Hearing
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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
Topic: Heartbreak
Source: None
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Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
Topic: Heaven
Source: None
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Topic: Honesty
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The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Topic: Imagination
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Topic: Imagination
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Topic: Indifference
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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.
Topic: Intimacy
Source: None
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