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 | "If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and
life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more
elastic, more starry, more immortal ? that is your success. All nature is
your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless
yourself." | |
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Found in the topic Success.
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| "Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." | |
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Found in the topic Clothes.
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| "But lo! men have become the tools of their tools." | |
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Found in the topic Machinery.
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| "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with
another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time
before they get off." | |
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Found in the topic Alone.
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| "The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in
it." | |
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Found in the topic Music.
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| "Poverty ? it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest." | |
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Found in the topic Potential.
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| "Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give
no evidence of it in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. It
would not leave them narrow-minded and bigoted." | |
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Found in the topic Bigotry.
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| "What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of
God and nature take sides with one party." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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| "The Youth gets together the materials to build a bridge to the moon,
or perchance a palace or temple on earth, but alas, at length, the middle
aged man concludes to build a wood shed with the materials." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old
poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a
mouse." | |
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Found in the topic Poetry.
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| "Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink,
taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." | |
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Found in the topic Seasons.
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| "All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is
taking place every second." | |
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Found in the topic Change.
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| "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on
darkness and ignorance." | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "What is called genius is the abundance of life and health." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." | |
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to
know." | |
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Found in the topic Learn.
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| "It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in
Zanzibar." | |
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Found in the topic Cat.
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| "It is as hard to see oneself as to look backwards without turning
around." | |
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Found in the topic See.
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| "It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the
heart; it being much more sensitive." | |
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Found in the topic Illusions.
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| "All good things are wild, and free." | |
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Found in the topic Good.
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