If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

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• Henry David Thoreau:

  None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

• Henry David Thoreau:

  The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

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  Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

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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

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  Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

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  Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

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  An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.