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• It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful
  but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do....
• Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
• It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong
  he may still properly have other concerns to engage him...
• What they said: What they meant: "If you knew this person as well as I know him, you would think as much of him as I do.
  (Or as little, to phrase it slightly more accurately....
• Mrs. Smith, do you believe that you are emotionally unstable?
  I should be. How many times have you committed suicide?...
• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
  Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. -- Henry David Thoreau...
• I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream
  and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours....
• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lo
  that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. -- Henry David Thoreau...
• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lo
  hat is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau...