The language of excitement is at best picturesque. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau
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Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.
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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
- Henry David Thoreau