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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

~Henry David Thoreau

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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12th, 1817

Died: May 6th, 1862

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