The future is wider than vision, and has no end.

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There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

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No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

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You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

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I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.

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In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.

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Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

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I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.

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The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.

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