Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
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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
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
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They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
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Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
Henry David Thoreau
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