Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
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It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear.
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What is once well done is done forever.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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