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" The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. "

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" Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. "

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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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" Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. "

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" The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. "

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" Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. "

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" If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. "

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" Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. "

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" Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. "

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" It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. "

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" I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well. "

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" The ancestor of every action is a thought. "

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" If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. "

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" Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. "

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" Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. "

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" The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

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" People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else. "

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" Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. "

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" All diseases run into one, old age. "

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" There is always safety in valor. "

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