"The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body."
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"All good things are wild and free."
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"Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined."
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"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me."
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"Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows."
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"That government is best which governs least."
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"Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations."
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"find your eternity in each moment"
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"All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes."
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"Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness."
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"I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright."
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"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."
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"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines."
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"Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate."
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"Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles."
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"Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground."
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"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
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"The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us."
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"Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them."
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"The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see."
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