"Men have become the tools of their tools."
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"If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might."
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"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen."
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"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."
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"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."
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"A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us."
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"You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind."
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"I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements."
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"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood."
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
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"Every man is the builder of a temple called his body."
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"I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side."
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"We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal."
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"If I am not I, who will be?"
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"Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?"
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"I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man."
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"Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits."
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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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"The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit ~ not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviæ from their graves ... You may melt your metals and cast them into the most beautiful moulds you can; they will never excite me like the forms which this molten earth flows out into."
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"I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself."
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