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- Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.
- Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there…
- Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.
- I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
- I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use…
- We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
- One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that…
- We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.
- 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.…
- Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit…
- Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.
- March to the beat of your own drummer.
- I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out…
- A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There…
- Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and…
- The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which…
- It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his…
- There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand…
- What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
- He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
- I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
- I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own…
- Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
- Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let…
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