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" Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. "

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" Things do not change; we change. "

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" If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. "

" Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. "

" After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. "

" All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. "

" Being is the great explainer. "

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" Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs. "

" As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society. "

" Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? "

" If misery loves company, misery has company enough. "

" It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. "

" I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life. "

" Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. "

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" There is no remedy for love but to love more. "

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" Simplify, simplify. "

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" Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. "

" There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. "

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" Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. "

" Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? "

" Only that day dawns to which we are awake. "

" If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. "

" Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. "

" I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. "

" There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before. "

" Goodness is the only investment that never fails. "

" Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. "

" Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. "

" If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. "

" If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine. "