We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones.
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.Henry David Thoreau
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
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There is no remedy for love than to love more.
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I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
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