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" Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Last
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" The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. "
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" Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. "
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" Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.' "
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Body
" Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. "
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Own
" Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. "
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Beautiful
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" Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. "
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Flowers
" Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. "
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" What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. "
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Virtues
Gardening
" Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. "
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Alive
Grass
" The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? "
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Who
Nature
" If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. "
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Path
Door
" Every artist was first an amateur. "
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Amateur
Art
First
" The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. "
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Lost
Never
Sum
" It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. "
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Stupid
Friends
Old Friends
" All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. "
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Creator
Me
Seen
" Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. "
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Secret
Great
Events
" Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. "
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People
One Thing
More
" It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. "
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Fact
Men
Good
" O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. "
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Day
Other
Book
" Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. "
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Selfish
Aim
Sensual
" The years teach much which the days never know. "
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Know
Teach
Never
" There is creative reading as well as creative writing. "
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Reading
Creative
Well
" I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well. "
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Am
Well
Perfectly
" Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. "
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Time
Up
Fail
" A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. "
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Five
Man
Ordinary
" Children are all foreigners. "
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Foreigners
Children
" The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. "
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Out
Thought
" It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. "
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Events