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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

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If you give money, spend yourself with it.

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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

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Men have become the tools of their tools.

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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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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

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I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

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The heart is forever inexperienced.

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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, break the law.

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Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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