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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

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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 in...more

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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

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As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seemed to strain and purify the air, and I was soothed ...more

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If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a specu...more

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If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for...more

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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

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The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

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The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, so...more

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As for Doing-good,that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried itfairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it do...more

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It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

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Sometimes, in a summer morning,having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrisetill noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines an...more

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.