What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNot till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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