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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

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A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work ...more

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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 unexpect...more

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

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So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but t...more

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teac...more

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperat...more

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Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

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The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in...more

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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 h...more

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Life in us is like the water in a river.

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.