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“Before you can master any of the other axioms of wisdom, you must first strive to be men and women of honor and integrity.”

— William H. McRaven

“That which is was long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; and God bringeth back again that which is past.”

— Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth)

“It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here.”

— Edward Abbey

“We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.”

— Edward Abbey

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.”

— Edward Abbey

“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”

— Edward Abbey

“Jealousy. The person who hasn't felt it cannot know how much it hurts, or imagine the madness committed in its name.”

— Isabel Allende

“She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well.”

— Isabel Allende

“God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“As I watched the seagulls, I thought: 'That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.'”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide—but so quickly close again!”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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