If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Orhan Pamuk

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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Henry David Thoreau

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Be not simply good - be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

Good Simply Something

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Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

Orhan Pamuk

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There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau

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My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.

Orhan Pamuk

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All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

Orhan Pamuk

All Great Master Work

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Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

Also Good Must Only

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

Henry David Thoreau

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We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy.

Orhan Pamuk

We Fall Love More

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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

Orhan Pamuk

Morality Probably Last Thing

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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Henry David Thoreau

Blessing Day Walk Whole

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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Canvas Imagination Our World

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What is once well done is done forever.

Henry David Thoreau

Done Forever Once Well

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Henry Van Dyke

Around Few Look Place

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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Henry Van Dyke

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There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry Van Dyke

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Henry Van Dyke

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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

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Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

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Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.

Quentin L. Cook

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Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

Henry Van Dyke

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It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Henry Van Dyke

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke

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Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Fulton J. Sheen

Sometimes Only Way Good

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When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

Fulton J. Sheen

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The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Heraclitus

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Heraclitus

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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Heraclitus

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In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

Fulton J. Sheen

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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Orson Welles

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Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

Fulton J. Sheen

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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

Orson Welles

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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Heraclitus

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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!

Fulton J. Sheen

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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Heraclitus

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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.

Fulton J. Sheen

Wish Light Must Keep

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If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Heraclitus

Expect Find Reached Search

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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Fulton J. Sheen

Before Sin Satan Assures

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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Heraclitus

Over Again Boredom Control

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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

Fulton J. Sheen

Most Like Look Inside

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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Heraclitus

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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Orson Welles

You Want Happy Ending

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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Heraclitus

Against Contend Cost Desire

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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

Fulton J. Sheen

Worship God Do You

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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Orson Welles

Create Own Visual Style

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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Heraclitus

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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Orhan Pamuk

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

Orhan Pamuk

Henry David Thoreau

My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.

Orhan Pamuk

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

Orhan Pamuk

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

Orhan Pamuk

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau

Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

Orhan Pamuk

Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

What is once well done is done forever.

Henry David Thoreau

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Henry Van Dyke

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Henry Van Dyke

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry Van Dyke

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Henry Van Dyke

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.

Quentin L. Cook

Henry Van Dyke

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Henry Van Dyke

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke

Fulton J. Sheen

When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

Fulton J. Sheen

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Heraclitus

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Heraclitus

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Heraclitus

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

Fulton J. Sheen

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Orson Welles

Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

Fulton J. Sheen

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

Orson Welles

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Heraclitus

There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!

Fulton J. Sheen

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Heraclitus

If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.

Fulton J. Sheen

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.