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Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as it were redeemed.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·January 10, 1851
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer
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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.
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How to make the getting our living poetic! for if it is not poetic, it is not life but death that we get.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·February 18, 1851
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived
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if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours