We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Business   
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Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Subject:
Life   
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Things do not change; we change.
Subject:
Change   
Source: Walden (1970)
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What is once well done is done forever.
Subject:
Competence   
Action   
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Subject:
Friendship   
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Subject:
Fool   
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Subject:
Learning   
Youth   
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Mankind   
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
Wealth   
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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Subject:
Americans   
Source:
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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Subject:
Loneliness   
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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Subject:
Truth   
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
Subject:
Reading   
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Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Subject:
Failure   
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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Subject:
Loneliness   
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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Subject:
Money   
Wealth   
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Subject:
Laws   
Just   
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Subject:
Success   
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