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"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them."

"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."

"What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new."

"What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."

"If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?"

"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes."

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself."

"What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."

"It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear."

"We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see."

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

"If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away."

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