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"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
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"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

"My existence began the day you were created and was realized the day we met."

"Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny."

"When you look up and don't see the stars, the universe may have cleared the sky for you to replace them."
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"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."

"Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man - a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit."

"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them."

"The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched."

"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him."

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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