And if the civilized man’s pursuits are no worthier than the savage’s, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaining gross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of
I will GLADLY take them off your hands!
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How can he remember well his ignorance—which his growth requires—who has so often to use his knowledge?
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
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But man’s capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.
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Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, “be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?”
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We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours.
Though we do small, menial tasks (ripen beans) we are not necessarily limited to them and are likely capable of more impressive feats (illumine a system of earths. at once!!!)
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