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“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Silence alone is worthy to be heard.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”— Ian MacLaren
Source:http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/
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“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”— Helen Keller
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“Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.”— Maya Angelou
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“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most.”— Mark Twain
Source:Mark Twain's Autobiography, p117
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“You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.”— Candace Bushnell
Source:Sex and the City
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“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.”— Mark Twain
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“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”— Helen Keller
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“I am a child of God, an inheritor of a fragment of the mind that created all worlds.”— Helen Keller
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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”— Douglas Adams
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“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”— David Russell
Source:Last Dance. Book.
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“It will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.”— Samuel Beckett
Source:The Unnamable, 1954. Book.
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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”— Ray Bradbury
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“Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.”— William Shakespeare
Source:William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73
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“A man is literally what he thinks.”— James Allen
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“I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work and my God.”— Helen Keller
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“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”— Thomas Fuller
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“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”— Sir Walter Besant
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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, d--n lies, and statistics.”— Mark Twain
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“Simplify, simplify.”— Henry David Thoreau
Source:Walden; or, Life in the Woods. 1854. Book.