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#1

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: characters, dreams, touchstones

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#3

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: inspirational

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#4

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude

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#5

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment

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#6

“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.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: aspirations, castles-in-the-air, dreams, foundations, futility, goals, security, work-lost

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#7

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: books

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#8

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

tags: reading

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#9

“Things do not change; we change.”
― henry david thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: common-sense, inspirational, philosophy

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#10

“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

tags: friendship, inspirational, meaning

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#11

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#12

“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: creativity, inspirational, writing

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#13

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: friendship

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#14

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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#15

“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”
― Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

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#16

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#17

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#18

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#19

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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#20

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#21

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, life

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#22

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

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#23

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain

tags: heartbreak

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#24

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― Mark Twain

tags: morals

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#25

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#26

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem

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#27

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, success

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#28

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
― Mark Twain

tags: actions, deeds

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#29

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

tags: thinking

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#30

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
― Henry Ford

tags: education, lifelong-learning

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