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/ page 658 of 1205 /The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
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Law never made men a whit more just.
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
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