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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
Money
Your
Work
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" Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. "
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" Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. "
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" Men are born to succeed, not to fail. "
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" Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. "
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" It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? "
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Enough
" While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings. "
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" The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do? "
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" If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. "
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" It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. "
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" Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. "
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Houses
Than
" The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. "
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Eyes
Darkness
Day
" Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. "
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Only
Also
Good
" A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. "
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Number
Rich
Afford
" It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. "
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Evil
Best
" Men have become the tools of their tools. "
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Men
Become
" I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated. "
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Single Word
Word
Without
" A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. "
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Beautiful
Time
Man
" The heart is forever inexperienced. "
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Relationship
Forever
Heart
" You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. "
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Present
Live
You
" The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. "
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Thought
Greatest
Me
" We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. "
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Tunnel
Princess
World
" I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. "
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Piece
Dark
Sleep
" It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today. "
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More
Late
Important
" In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. "
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Long
High
Aim
" Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. "
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" What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? "
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" I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. "
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Myself
Sit
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Good
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" Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. "
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