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" Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. "
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" There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. "
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" A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. "
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" I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. "
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" The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. "
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" The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. "
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" A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. "
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" We acquire the strength we have overcome. "
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" The years teach much which the days never know. "
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