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The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

Life is not only short, but uncertain, and art is not only long, but absorbing.

Keep by every means what is your own; do not desire what belongs to others.

See that you do nothing like a sheep; but if you do, in this case also the man is lost.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.

Liberty, as the inestimable birthright of every man, converted every object into an asserter of this right.

Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments.

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

There are, however, times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed mind cannot enjoy the treasure it has secured at the greatest cost.

Nothing is more hidden from us than the illusion which lives with us day by day, and our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

How to make the getting our living poetic! for if it is not poetic, it is not life but death that we get.

In society you will not find health, but in nature.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived

if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours

To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.

If he is perplexed, unhappy, restless, or wretched, let him look to himself, for there and nowhere else is the source of all his trouble.

Reverie is a loose dreaming into which a man falls; meditation is a strong, purposeful thinking into which a man rises.

Our young people feel nervously the need of putting theory into action, and respond quickly to the Settlement form of activity.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.