You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
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Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread, and meat
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A day for toil, an hour for sport, But for a friend is life too short.
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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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It is a luxury to be understood.
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