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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.
         

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.


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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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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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The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.





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