"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

A Course In Miracles on peace
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"The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free."

Thoreau, Henry David on freedom
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"People die of fright and live of confidence."

Thoreau, Henry David on fear
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"We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same."

Thoreau, Henry David on fashion
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"Even the best things are not equal to their fame."

Thoreau, Henry David on fame
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"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

Thoreau, Henry David on faith
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"The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures."

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"Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants."

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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 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."

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

Thoreau, Henry David on emotions
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"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."

Thoreau, Henry David on education
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"How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?"

Thoreau, Henry David on education
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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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"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."

Thoreau, Henry David on doubt
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"Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit."

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

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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