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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

Time

Eternity

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Henry David Thoreau

Constitution

May

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.