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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

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Life in us is like the water in a river.

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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates,...more

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It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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We are constantly invited to be what we are.

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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

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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.

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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it...more