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- A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does…
- We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of…
- We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.
- My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at…
- A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not…
- The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
- One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be…
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not…
- As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not…
- When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
- Would it not be worth while to discover nature in Milton? be native to the universe? I, too, love Concord best, but I am glad…
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