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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
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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.
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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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.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
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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 only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
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’Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.