Quotes

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

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A force, darker than jealousy; and stronger than love had begun to take hold.

Christian [on death]|Moulin Rouge

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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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My parents taught me at a young age how to not hate people. It wasn't until I was older that I realized how rare this trait is.

Thomas P.

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Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

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We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

Margaret Mead

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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 foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,Therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; Therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.

Henry David Thoreau

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War.

Mark Twain

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What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

Henry David Thoreau

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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore.

Andre Gide

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau