The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they...

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that...

This American government what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to...

This American government what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to...

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not,...

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not,...

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain,...

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain,...

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer...

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer...

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in...

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in...

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with...

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with...

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy,...

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy,...

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the...

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the...

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up...

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up...

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?...

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?...

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing...

We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing...

Success builds character, failure reveals it

Success builds character, failure reveals it