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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
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“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that 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.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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