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Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

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It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

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No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

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To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

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So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

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Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

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Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

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We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

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There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

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I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

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