Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
- Topic: Nature, Perception
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
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