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“To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.”

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Author:James Dickey

“The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet carrying it with us; eternally in pursuit of happiness, which keeps eternally before us. If death or bankruptcy happen to trip us out of the circle, it is matter for the buzz of the evening, and is completely forgotten by the next morning.”

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

“The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.”

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Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

“A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.”

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Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”

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Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“In the religion of the Medes and Persians the cult of trees plays an important part, and with them, as with Assyrians, the symbol of eternal life was a tree with a stream at its roots. Another object of veneration was the sacred miracle tree, which within itself contained the seeds of all.”

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Book:History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes

Source: History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes

“The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.”

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Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes