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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.
         

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.


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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.



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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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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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