Quotes on quote

“Genius lasts longer than Beauty.”

Oscar Wilde
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Oscar Wilde
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“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”

Oscar Wilde
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

Oscar Wilde
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“Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that 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.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

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

Henry David Thoreau
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“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end… We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”

Henry David Thoreau
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