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depend upon it, you will love your native hills the better for being separated from them
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What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
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Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·December 24, 1850
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Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as it were redeemed.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·January 10, 1851
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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
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature.