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/ page 665 of 1205 /The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
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If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
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Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
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How earthy old people become - moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
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Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
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A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
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