"To regret deeply is to live afresh."

Thoreau, Henry David on regret
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"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."

Thoreau, Henry David on riches
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"We are constantly invited to be who we are."

Thoreau, Henry David on self-appraisal
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"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail."

Thoreau, Henry David on simplicity   

"I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth."

Thoreau, Henry David on sincerity   

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude
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"I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude
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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   

"Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere."

Thoreau, Henry David on behavior   

"Things do not change, we do."

Thoreau, Henry David on change
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"We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected."

Thoreau, Henry David on suspicion   

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"Be not simply good; be good for something."

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

Thoreau, Henry David on pride
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"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."

Thoreau, Henry David on present
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"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."

Thoreau, Henry David on happiness
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"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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"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off."

Thoreau, Henry David on independence
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"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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"He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate."

Thoreau, Henry David on leisure
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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   

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

Thoreau, Henry David on life
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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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"There is no remedy for love than to love more."

Thoreau, Henry David on love
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"Of what significance are the things you can forget."

Thoreau, Henry David on memory
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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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"We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being."

Thoreau, Henry David on potential   

"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   

"Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on knowledge
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"Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on thoughts and thinking
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on friends and friendship
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Thoreau, Henry David on honesty
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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   

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on insights
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Thoreau, Henry David on desperation
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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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"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 heart is forever inexperienced."

Thoreau, Henry David on emotions
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