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/ page 567 of 1205 /It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear.
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Hereabouts our Indian told us at length the story of their contention with the priest respecting schools. He thought a great deal of education...
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We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.
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One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
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Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
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Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.
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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back. Nature
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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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This observatory was a building of considerable size, erected by the students of Williamstown College, whose buildings might be seen by daylig...
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He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
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The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
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Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
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Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
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You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
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All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
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I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
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This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
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