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Whatever moves me, whatever thrills me, is as a hand that touches me in the dark, and that touch is my reality.
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Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.
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My most sacred and memorable life is commonly on awaking in the morning.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·May 24, 1851
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Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.
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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that
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I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself.
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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”
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Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
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It is not always recognized that the work itself is a great educator, and that acute cleverness in the line of work to which he is fitted comes to the worker.
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He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception.
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It’s just as important where we are not as it is where we are.
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They may be truths to me, but don’t think that that makes them mine… because you can’t own a truth.
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All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul.
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But music never has to depend upon any obvious meaning; it expresses what no words can ever express.
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For joy is knowledge in its completeness, it is knowing by our whole being.
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For we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.
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Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.
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The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation.
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A mind might ponder its thought for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.