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Henry David Thoreau: We are armed...

Henry David Thoreau: We are armed...

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human...

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Henry David Thoreau: There is no...

Henry David Thoreau: There is no...

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we...

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Henry David Thoreau: The savage in...

Henry David Thoreau: The savage in...

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Henry David Thoreau: Whether the flower...

Henry David Thoreau: Whether the flower...

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it!...

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Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Source: The Practical Cogitator,...

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Honore de Balzac: In diving to...

Honore de Balzac: In diving to...

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Source: In...

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Honore de Balzac: We exaggerate misfortune...

Honore de Balzac: We exaggerate misfortune...

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we...

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Honore de Balzac: Manners are the...

Honore de Balzac: Manners are the...

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Source: Quoted in: Andr? Gide, Journals 1889...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: I never guess....

Arthur Conan Doyle: I never guess....

I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty.

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Aesop: The injuries we...

Aesop: The injuries we...

The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.

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Margot Asquith: The capacity to...

Margot Asquith: The capacity to...

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

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Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just have hope or starve to death.

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Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is...

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Annie Dillard: I woke in...

Annie Dillard: I woke in...

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and...

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Annie Dillard: The dedicated life...

Annie Dillard: The dedicated life...

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

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Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Home is a...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Home is a...

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom,...

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Jerome K Jerome: Angels may be...

Jerome K Jerome: Angels may be...

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is in...

Jerome K Jerome: It is in...

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . . . It is in our...

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