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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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    Voltaire
    “The best is the enemy of good.”
    ― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: ambition, best, desires, good, greed, insatiability
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude
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    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead and his eyes are dimmed.”
    ― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
    tags: art, beauty, emotion, experience, mystery, science, truth, wonder
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    C.G. Jung
    “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Mark Twain
    “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: worry
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
    tags: magic, positive-thinking
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    Elizabeth I
    “The past cannot be cured.”
    ― Queen Elizabeth I
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
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    T.S. Eliot
    “When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Complete Poems and Plays
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    George Eliot
    “That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.”
    ― J.R.R Tolkien
    tags: bilbo, fellowship-of-the-ring, j-r-r-tolkien, the-lord-of-the-rings, the-shire
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    George Eliot
    “But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: inspirational, life, thoughtful
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.

    A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
    tags: admirer, fool, holmes, intelligence, sherlock, thriller
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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