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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
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I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
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I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
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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.
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.