"I have climbed several higher mountains without..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.
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“No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.”
“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
“I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that the corporations may be enriched.”
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“That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.”
“If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work”
“It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.”
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“I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.”
“Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.”
“His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.”