The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau Change
Walden, 1854
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Things do not change; we change.
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Henry David Thoreau Work
Walden, 1854
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
Ralph Waldo Emerson People
"Self-Reliance," in Essays: First Series, 1841
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Abraham Lincoln Government
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane Austen Love
Pride and Prejudice, 1813
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran Good living
The Prophet, 1923
Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.
Walt Whitman Change
"Song of Myself," in Leaves of Grass, 1855
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau Work
Walden, 1854
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson People
"Self-Reliance," in Essays: First Series, 1841
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