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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.
         

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.


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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.



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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...



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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.



be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.



What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.



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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.



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