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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
  Henry David Thoreau...
• I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream
  and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours....
• In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life
  uch are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds....
• It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau
• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau
• Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. -- Henry David Thoreau
• Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. -- Gaugui
• Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
  -- Booker T. Washingto...