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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

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I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

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Be curious, not judgmental.

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Produce great men, the rest follows.

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Baseball will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

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Press close bare-bosomed night - press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

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