The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
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The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but last fruits also.
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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
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The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails ... beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead.
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones.
Henry David Thoreau
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