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Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides. - [Culture] For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. - [Price] I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. - [Thought] I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture. - [Rain] If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. - [Science] One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking. - [Doing] To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. - [Facts] Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. - [Travel] That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. - Journal, referring to the Fourth of July [Fourth of July] The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. - The Snow-Walkers [Winter] Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me. - Waiting [Expectation]
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