To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
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Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
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The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes to almost the worth of staying home.
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