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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of
life, by him who interests his heart in everything.  -- Laurence Sterne
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only
we seek them with our eyes open.  -- Jawaharial Nehru
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity
of purpose and imaginative vision against the commonplace.  -- Cecil Beaton
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where
there is no path and leave a trail.  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that
are unknown, and in between, there are doors.  -- William Blake
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous
in the common.  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting
for our wits to grow sharper.  -- Eden Phillpotts
People travel far to wonder at the majesty of the mountains, the towering forests, the vast compass
of the ocean, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering at all.  -- St. Augustine
I am a writer who came of a sheltered life.  A sheltered life can be a daring
life as well.  For all serious daring starts from within.  -- Eudora Welty
I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.  -- Robert Frost
Take the path opposite to custom.  Follow the path of the unsafe,
independent thinker.  -- Jacques Rousseau
Life is a splendid gift.  There is nothing small about it.  -- Florence Nightingale
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered, an inconvenience
is only an adventure wrongly considered.  -- G. K. Chesterton
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The Call of the Wild "by Jack London; audio download
Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Eudora Welty Foundation - take the virtual tour of her home
Quotations of G. K. Chesterton
Florence Nightingale Museum
Laurence Sterne
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