"Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness."

Hirschfield, Mangnu on love
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"Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on love
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"As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs."

Thoreau, Henry David on age and aging
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"In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high."

Thoreau, Henry David on goals
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"We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light."

Thoreau, Henry David on happiness   

"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive."

Thoreau, Henry David on imagination
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"We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described."

Thoreau, Henry David on influence
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"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest."

Thoreau, Henry David on life
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"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

Thoreau, Henry David on failure
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"Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced."

Thoreau, Henry David on experience
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"The heart is forever inexperienced."

Thoreau, Henry David on emotions
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on eccentricity
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"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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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 the foundations under them."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Thoreau, Henry David on desperation
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"You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure."

Thoreau, Henry David on success   

"There is no remedy for love than to love more."

Thoreau, Henry David on love
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"You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can."

Thoreau, Henry David on people
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"Be not simply good; be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"Let nothing come between you and the light."

Thoreau, Henry David on control   

"As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course."

Thoreau, Henry David on conformity
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"We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!"

Thoreau, Henry David on understanding   

"Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love."

Thoreau, Henry David on truth
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"But lo! men have become the tools of their tools."

Thoreau, Henry David on tools   

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"Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness."

Thoreau, Henry David on tenderness   

"Things do not change, we do."

Thoreau, Henry David on change
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"If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior."

Thoreau, Henry David on behavior   

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"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude
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"Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave."

Thoreau, Henry David on slavery   

"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."

Thoreau, Henry David on sin
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"A man sits as many risks as he runs."

Thoreau, Henry David on risk   

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"To regret deeply is to live afresh."

Thoreau, Henry David on regret
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"The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, -- you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, -- I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that."

Thoreau, Henry David on rebellion
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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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