"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on morality
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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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"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."

Thoreau, Henry David on inspiration
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"Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven."

Thoreau, Henry David on knowledge   

"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."

Thoreau, Henry David on knowledge
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"I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage."

Thoreau, Henry David on letters   

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

Thoreau, Henry David on love
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"The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed."

Thoreau, Henry David on mediocrity
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"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them."

Thoreau, Henry David on memory   

"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

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

Thoreau, Henry David on emotions
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"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

Thoreau, Henry David on egotism
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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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"Water is the only drink for a wise man."

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

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."

Aristotle on courage
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle on education
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"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

Aristotle on education
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"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."

Aristotle on evil
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"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."

Aristotle on goodness
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"The secret to humor is surprise."

Aristotle on humor
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"The end of labor is to gain leisure."

Aristotle on leisure
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"We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace."

Aristotle on leisure
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"This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own."

Aristotle on parents and parenting
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

Aristotle on poetry and poets
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"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."

Aristotle on possibilities
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

Aristotle on self-control
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

Aristotle on suffering
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"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."

Aristotle on teacher
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"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."

Aristotle on courage
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"The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one."

Aristotle on affection
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