The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Tag: Henry David Thoreau
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I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Any fool can make a rule,and any fool will mind it.
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.