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Margaret Atwood: A word after...

Margaret Atwood: A word after...

A word after a word after a word is power.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Boris Pasternak: As in an...

Boris Pasternak: As in an...

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this...

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Thomas Carlyle: The outer passes...

Thomas Carlyle: The outer passes...

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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Thomas Carlyle: The spiritual is...

Thomas Carlyle: The spiritual is...

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Thomas Carlyle: There is a...

Thomas Carlyle: There is a...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not...

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Thomas Carlyle: Wonder is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Wonder is the...

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Henry David Thoreau: I was born...

Henry David Thoreau: I was born...

I was born upon thy bank, river,
My blood flows in thy stream,
And thou meanderest forever
At the bottom of...

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Henry David Thoreau: He enjoys true...

Henry David Thoreau: He enjoys true...

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Source: Journals,...

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Henry David Thoreau: If I knew...

Henry David Thoreau: If I knew...

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...

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Henry David Thoreau: If I seem...

Henry David Thoreau: If I seem...

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for...

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Henry David Thoreau: A stereotyped but...

Henry David Thoreau: A stereotyped but...

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of...

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Henry David Thoreau: The laboring man...

Henry David Thoreau: The laboring man...

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Source: Walden,...

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Henry David Thoreau: True, there are...

Henry David Thoreau: True, there are...

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of...

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Henry David Thoreau: Speech is for...

Henry David Thoreau: Speech is for...

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if...

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Henry David Thoreau: Goodness is the...

Henry David Thoreau: Goodness is the...

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

Source: Walden, Higher Laws,...

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Henry David Thoreau: Books are the...

Henry David Thoreau: Books are the...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and...

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Henry David Thoreau: Only that day...

Henry David Thoreau: Only that day...

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning...

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Henry David Thoreau: We are double-edged...

Henry David Thoreau: We are double-edged...

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our...

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Henry David Thoreau: Success usually comes...

Henry David Thoreau: Success usually comes...

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Source: In...

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Henry David Thoreau: No way of...

Henry David Thoreau: No way of...

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

Source:...

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