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- Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning… Accomplished
- I did not know that we had ever quarreled. Funny
- To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once… Ask
- No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet… Accurate
- Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the… Bells
- I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say… Bathed
- Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried. Determination
- First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling… Almost Incalculable
- The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! Afford
- You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns. All
- I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old… Acquaintance
- Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere. Action
- We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. Blades
- I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. Hundred
- We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto. Cannot Write
- The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands. Breeds
- My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas… Alert
- Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. Advantage
- The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted… Abused
- Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. Command
- We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most… Best
- It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. Distant
- The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the… Been
- In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,… All
- Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life. Accident
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