Quote from Henry David Thoreau:
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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To be awake is to be alive.
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I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
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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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My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.
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If you have built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Not put the foundations under them.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.