A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau in Walden, 1854
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Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

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Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

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Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

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