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"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."
Exploration

"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
Nothing

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
God

"O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself."
Love

"Produce great men, the rest follows."
Man

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."
Man

"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"
Desire

"The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to your nevertheless,And filter and fibre your blood.Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,Missing me one place, search another,I stop somewhere waiting for you."
Nature

"Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self."
Literature

"This the touch of my lips to yours, this the murmur of yearning, This the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face, This the thoughtful merge of myself, and the outlet again. Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has. Do you take it I would astonish? Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering through the woods? Do I astonish more than they? This hour I tell things in confidence, I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you."
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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."
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"To marry a fool is to be no fool."
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"A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it."
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"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
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"The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass."
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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
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"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is."
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
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"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."
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"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."
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