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- No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may…
- One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously…
- We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.
- I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could…
- It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but…
- The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
- I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and…
- 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…
- 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…
- Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.
- What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
- My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.
- The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish…
- I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early…
- Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on…
- The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one…
- October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a…
- Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.
- Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then…
- I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk…
- The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
- Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is…
- This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have…
- There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and…
- Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and…
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