"It is never too late to give up our prejudices."
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"Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds."
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"The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest."
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"The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much."
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"It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man."
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"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."
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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings."
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"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."
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"Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness."
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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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"I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; that tender organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp, - tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has rained flesh and blood! With the liability to accident, we must see how little account is to be made of it."
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"It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know."
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"When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?""
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"As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see."
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"Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten."
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"Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized taste, such at least as were frozen while sound, let a warmer sun come to thaw them, for they are extremely sensitive to its rays, are found to be filled with a rich, sweet cider, better than any bottled cider that I know of, and with which I am better acquainted than with wine. All apples are good in this state, and your jaws are the cider-press."
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"There is no beginning too small."
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"To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle."
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"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
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"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
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