Genius is not a retainer to any emperor. - Henry David Thoreau

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I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision.

Henry David Thoreau

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

Emperor, Genius, Independence, Retainer

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Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

Back, Past, Simple, Simplify, Struggle, Worrying

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Beauty Within, Look, Looks, Possible, Question, See

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Adventure, Dead Poets Society, Live, Nature, Wished, Woods

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

Dream, Inspiration, Island, Lying, Neighbors, Opportunities

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Inspirational, Look, Matters, Motivational, Positive, See

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George Washington

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.

Bigotry, Class, Enjoyed, Exercise, Good, Patriotic

John Hirsch

I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision.

Advantage, Artist, Aware, Double, Double Vision, Mean

Richelle Mead

I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that what normal mothers and daughters did?

Bed, Daughter, Fears, Melancholy, Mom, Mother

Marguerite Duras

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Believe, Childhoods, Mother, People, Remain, Represents

Eric Carle

On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon That night he had a stomach ache.

Cake, Lollipop, Night, Pie, Saturday, Slice