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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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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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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