Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.
("Walden, or Life in the Woods")
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
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