“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”
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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau
Naturalist
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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Henry David Thoreau
Naturalist
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