Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the... - Henry David Thoreau

"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."

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"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
"Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up."
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"On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world."