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It is not down in any map; true places never are
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The dullest eye in the world must surely be quickened by such trees as these.
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But we have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more are we capable of seeing.
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Clumsy indeed are all words the moment the wooden stage of commonplace life is left.
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It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.
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Never had I felt confinement less—I who feel, when I am out of sight of living, growing grass, and out of sound of birds' voices and all rural sounds, that I am not properly alive!