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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
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The reading which I love best is the scriptures of the several nations, though it happens that I am better acquainted with those of the Hindoo...
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
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The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit -- not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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