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From the Garden of Heperides
Thoreau
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

It takes a man to make a room silent.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

If I am not I, who will be?

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

How trivial and uninteresting and wearisome and unsatisfactory are all employments for which men will pay you money!

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

He is the true artist whose life is his material.

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Richard Cruickshank
“Although beauty may be skin deep, many have drowned there.”

“We cannot change the inevitable, but inevitably there will be change.”

“Love is in the palm of the hand; you just have to unclench the fist.”

“If you spend all your time second-guessing tomorrow … you will not have time for today.”

“Up till now I have paid little attention to a lot of things, but now I pay a lot of attention to little things.”

“There is no short cut to experience.”

“Birthdays are just speed-bumps on the road of life telling us to slow down.”

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One-liners
Warning: dates on calendar are closer than they appear.

A day without sunshine is like night.

He who sitteth upon a tack shall surely rise!

Can you repeat the part after “Listen very carefully”?

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Don’t do what I SAY, do what I mean!

Thank God I’m an Atheist!

I didn’t believe in reincarnation in my last life, either.

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Poetic epigrams

What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole;
Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Little strokes
Fell great oaks.
— Benjamin Franklin

Here lies my wife: here let her lie!
Now she’s at rest — and so am I.
— John Dryden

I am His Highness’ dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
— Alexander Pope

I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
— Hilaire Belloc

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# The man who can’t make mistakes, can’t make anything.
— Abraham Lincoln

# Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
— Winston Churchill

# Gratitude is the timid wealth of those who have nothing.
— Emily Dickinson

# The sailor cannot see the North — but knows the Needle can
— Emily Dickinson

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