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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
         

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 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.



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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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The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.





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