The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.Henry David Thoreau
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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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.
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
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Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
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