You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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