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Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..
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Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master’s chaise. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.
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