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You don't know your testament when you see it.
We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.
My profession is to always find God in nature.
In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.
If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.
How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!
The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!
I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
My greatest skill has been to want but little.
Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.
A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.
The greater number of men are merely corporals.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.
Count your age with friends but not with years.
What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.
The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.
I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
We loiter in winter while it is already spring.
How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.
In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.
Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.
That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
What we need to know in any case is very simple.
Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.
Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.
To live a better life,--this surely can be done.
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.