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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
         

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.


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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.

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



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

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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