"Every people have gods to suit their circumstances."
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"Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors."
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"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
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"Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it."
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"Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows."
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"Write while the heat is in you."
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"He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise."
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"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."
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"In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts."
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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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"Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it."
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"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."
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"The heart is forever inexperienced."
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"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
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"All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be."
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"That grand old poem called Winter"
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"Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment"
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"They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself."
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"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?"
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"Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography"
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