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When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him... - MORE When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

soul | individualism | intellect

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The habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour, and idleness. Of these the first onl... - MORE The habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour, and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labor rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of its just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.

Abraham Lincoln

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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Michel de Montaigne

self | human nature | pleasures

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We have defined envy as a feeling of pain that a person experiences when he sees someone else possesses something which he does no... - MORE We have defined envy as a feeling of pain that a person experiences when he sees someone else possesses something which he does not. Jealousy arises when a person possesses something of great value and significance to himself and fears that someone else will deprive him of it. Threats to self-esteem are usually involved in both envy and jealousy, but the situations that provoke them are different and the jealous person will probably be more ready to take overt action to protect what he believes is rightfully his. Overt crimes of passion motivated by jealousy are frequent, whereas crimes of envy tend to be secretive. In general it is shameful to be envious but more acceptable to be jealous in protecting what one rightfully possesses.

Solomon Schimmel

jealousy | envy

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For the most part, there was no recognition of human life in the night; no human breathing was heard, only the breathing of the wi... - MORE For the most part, there was no recognition of human life in the night; no human breathing was heard, only the breathing of the wind. As we sat up, kept awake by the novelty of our situation, we heard at intervals foxes stepping about over the dead leaves, and brushing the dewy grass close to our tent, and once a musquash fumbling among the potatoes and melons in our boat; but when we hastened to the shore we could detect only a ripple in the water ruffling the disk of a star. At intervals we were serenaded by the song of a dreaming sparrow or the throttled cry of an owl; but after each sound which near at hand broke the stillness of the night, each crackling of the twigs, or rustling among the leaves, there was a sudden pause, and deeper and more conscious silence, as if the intruder were aware that no life was rightfully abroad at that hour.

Henry David Thoreau

night | camping | sounds

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Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to... - MORE Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

books | writers and writing | influence, literary

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I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me;Mnot hang by the beam of the s... - MORE I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me;Mnot hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less,--not suppose a case, but take the case that is; to travel the only path I can, and that on which no power can resist me. It affords me no satisfaction to commence to spring an arch before I have got a solid foundation.

Henry David Thoreau

facts | truth | action

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