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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.
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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ""To rise above little things
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We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.
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He had 2.7 million veterans under him. He carries a pretty heavy stick.
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For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!
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The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd say if it is just us, an awful lot of space is going to waste. The earth is not alone, it is not like a single apple on a tree; there are many apples on the tree, and there are many trees in the orchard.
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