Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.
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If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.Henry David Thoreau
We were born to succeed, not to fail.
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I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.
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How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe for though the world is so old so many books have been written each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience each field of thought wholly unexplored The whole world is an America, a New World.
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Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
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