Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

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A man in debt is so far a slave.

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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

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