What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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.
Henry David Thoreau
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
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What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
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