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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.
         

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.


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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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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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