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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.


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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.



There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.



The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.



It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.



If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...



I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.



be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.



What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.



The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.



The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.





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We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.



Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary



Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.



What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.

What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.



I don't share my body heat indiscriminately.

I don't share my body heat indiscriminately.



And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.



What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.



Virtue is the truest liberty.

Virtue is the truest liberty.



People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.

People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.



"Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged".

"Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged".




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