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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.



Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.



This world is but a canvas to our imagination.



In wilderness is the preservation of the world.



Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.



The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.



Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.



Truths and roses have thorns about them.



The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.



The question is not what you look at, but what you see.



Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.



Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.



We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.



Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.



When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and the most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter the swamp as a sacred place--a sanctum sanctorum; there is the strength, the marrow of Nature.







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