"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."

Focus, Mind, Attention, Values

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"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."

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"Stop judging and minding other people's business. Focus on shaping your life to align with your true destiny. There is always some flaws that need to be fixed in our various lives."

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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."

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"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

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"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

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"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."

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"Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another."

Culture

"City life - millions of people being lonesome together."

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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."

Nature

"The silence rings-it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible-I hear the unspeakable."

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