The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus you may feel your pulse.Henry David Thoreau
How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden all world-ridden.
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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
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What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
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We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
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