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I will be mute, and thou shalt guide my steps
Into the covert from the public road,
Till I have learned their drift. A prudent man
Will ever shape his course by what he learns.

Sophocles

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the masses of men.

Henry David Thoreau

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him keep step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to lead the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without falling a little in self respect.

Henry David Thoreau

Fifteen minutes a day devoted to self-improvement, will be felt at the end of the year.

Samuel Smiles

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

William Cecil