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" A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did. "

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" I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. "

" Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. "

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" Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another. "

" To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. "

" Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. "

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" As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world. "

" Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live. "

" I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. "

" There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move! "

" Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. "

" Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality. "

" You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. "

" Step by step and the thing is done. "

" The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life. "

" I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. "

" Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him. "

" We are really here to be happy and to make others happy. "

" Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. "

Phillips Brooks

" Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. "

" To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. "

" From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune. "

" The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth. "

" You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. "

" Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. "

" It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. "

" You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. "

" Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer. "

" The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen. "