“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day… — Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Man’s unquestionable ability to elevate his life by conscious endeavour is among the most encouraging of facts.

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are… — Henry David Thoreau

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