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- The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- 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,…
- It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in…
- 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…
- As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness…
- 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.
- Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some…
- There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to…
- Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
- You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
- What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
- To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
- The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
- The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
- Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Live the life you've dreamed.
- If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
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