"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
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"Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds."
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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."
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"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
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"When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived."
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"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
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"Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify."
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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."
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"Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing."
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"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
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"City life is millions of people being lonesome together."
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"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
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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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"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
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"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it."
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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. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."
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"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
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"When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen."
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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent."
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"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."
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