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/ page 663 of 1205 /How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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