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I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

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Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

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While I enjoy the friendship of the seasons I trust that nothing can make life a burden to me.

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Franklin,—Washington,—they were left off without dying; they were merely missing one day.

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We do not live by justice, but by grace.

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So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is ...

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When a dog runs at you, whistle for him

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Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone ...

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One farmer says to me, You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

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Is it not singular that, while the religious world is gradually picking to pieces its old testaments, here are some coming slowly after, on th...

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A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subject for Christi...

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A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

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It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

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Thus our life is not altogether a forgetting, but also, alas! to a great extent, a remembering, of that which we should never have been consci...

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A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

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I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

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The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

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The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

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Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

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God gave the righteous man a certificate entitling him to food and raiment, but the unrighteous man found a facsimile of the same in God's cof...

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