"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect."

Thoreau, Henry David on doubt
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"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."

Thoreau, Henry David on doubt
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"As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution."

Thoreau, Henry David on deeds and good deeds
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"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."

Thoreau, Henry David on deeds and good deeds
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"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

Thoreau, Henry David on enlightenment
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"In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains."

Thoreau, Henry David on eternity
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"By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber."

Thoreau, Henry David on farming and farmers   

"Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor."

Thoreau, Henry David on farming and farmers   

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"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

Thoreau, Henry David on faith
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"The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures."

Thoreau, Henry David on faith   

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"Only Americans can hurt America."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on america
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"We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not."

Thoreau, Henry David on faith
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"My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought -- with these I deal."

Thoreau, Henry David on facts   

"The eye is the jewel of the body."

Thoreau, Henry David on eyes
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"Being is the great explainer."

Thoreau, Henry David on existence
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Thoreau, Henry David on desperation
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"Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

Franklin, Benjamin on excuses
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"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Franklin, Benjamin on education
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"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."

Franklin, Benjamin on discontent
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."

Franklin, Benjamin on faith
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"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."

Franklin, Benjamin on guests
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"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

Franklin, Benjamin on greatness
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"Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude."

Franklin, Benjamin on gratitude   

"The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor."

Franklin, Benjamin on fools and foolishness
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"Most fools think they are only ignorant."

Franklin, Benjamin on fools and foolishness
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"A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance."

Franklin, Benjamin on faults   

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."

Franklin, Benjamin on faith
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"An old young man, will be a young old man."

Franklin, Benjamin on age and aging
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"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."

Franklin, Benjamin on age and aging
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