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Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

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Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

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In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

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A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

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Quotation confesses inferiority.

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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

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Shallow men believe in luck.

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When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

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Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

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Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

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Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

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The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

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Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

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