"What is sour in the house a bracing……" — Henry David Thoreau

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• The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous… — Louis Kronenberger
• Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very… — William Croswell Doane
• I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and… — Robert Burns
• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to… — Augustus Hare
• To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. — George Steiner
• Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often… — William James
• There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a… — Noah Webster
• Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble… — Margaret Thatcher
• None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books… — Charlotte Mason
• Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet… — Ken Tucker
• I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of… — Jude Morgan

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