"Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth."
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"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
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"When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before."
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"They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little."
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"Renew thyself completely each day."
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"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are."
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"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree."
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"In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle of the law. What is human warfare but just this, - an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Men make an arbitrary code, and, because it is not right, they try to make it prevail by might. The moral law does not want any champion. Its asserters do not go to war. It was never infringed with impunity. It is inconsistent to decry war and maintain law, for if there were no need of war there would be no need of law."
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"He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate."
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"When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow."
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"In my walks I would fain return to my senses."
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"If Nature is our mother, then God is our father."
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"If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler."
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"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."
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"Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid."
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable."
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"I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future."
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"As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones."
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"We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird."
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"I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery."
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