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- A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must…
- The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere…
- The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within…
- We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of…
- We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process,…
- Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and…
- It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the…
- My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . .…
- I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one…
- For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which…
- Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of…
- Oh, one world at a time!
- One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be…
- Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and…
- There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
- The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.
- One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
- There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
- There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who…
- One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five…
- Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
- 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…
- There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in…
- Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
- There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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