If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
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Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
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. He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton he who does not cannot be otherwise.
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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
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I know myself as a human entity the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.
Henry David Thoreau
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