The old Lakota knew that man’s heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

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  Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.

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  The longer I know the joys of this world, the less I value them.

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  There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

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  The longest way round is the shortest way home.

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  I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less.

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  Men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.

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