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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."

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"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change."

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"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."

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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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"The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist."

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"The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard."

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"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that 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."

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"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

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"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

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"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."

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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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"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."

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"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."

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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

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