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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.

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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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