A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail … - Henry David Thoreau

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I prefer the 1950s where people were like, "I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am. " Now people want to burn a cross on your lawn and call themselves not racists.

Henry David Thoreau

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

Majority, Man, Men, Mercy, Wise, Wish

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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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When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other man do it.

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It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not just the sound, but the emotion, the technique of the singing.

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I prefer the 1950s where people were like, "I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am. " Now people want to burn a cross on your lawn and call themselves not racists.

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Pope Gregory VII

I have loved justice and hated inequity; and therefore I die in exile. [Lat. , Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio. ]

Exile, Hated, Justice, Morior, Odi

Robert Greene

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

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