"Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man."

Nature, Discretion, Man, Right

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"Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man."

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

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"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

Stephen King, American Author

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"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

Stephen King, American Author

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"We ran as if to meet the moon."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education."

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"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."

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"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."

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"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."

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"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."

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"What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name."

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"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."

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"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."

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"The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself."

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"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."

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