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"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
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"As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion."
"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."
"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."
"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."
"Forget it. Never explain, never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't."
"Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time."
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"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
"Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down. He appears to migrate westward daily and tempt us to follow him. He is the Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow. We dream all night of those mountain ridges in the horizon, though they may be of vapor only, which were last gilded by his rays."
"Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old. 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 exercise which the customs of the day esteem."
"It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
"So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre."
"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
"There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders."
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