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- We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful…
- If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's…
- 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…
- If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . .…
- Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him…
- While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it…
- One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously…
- I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is…
- When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
- Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their…
- That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that…
- I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if…
- True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments…
- I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of…
- I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was…
- The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's…
- The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
- As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.
- If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.
- A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by…
- It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he…
- The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object.…
- To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never…
- There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
- There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
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