Henry David Thoreau

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• I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Walden (1854), p. 364In context

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• To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.

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• We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

  Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989), Author unknown; attributed to Henry David Thoreau, but not found in his works.

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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