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One farmer says to me, ”You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau
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Be yourself – not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.

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Water is the only drink for a wise man.

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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

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The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.

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Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith.

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

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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

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