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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up…
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The child is the father of man.
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Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
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Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
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Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."
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Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
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A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers,…
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake…
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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
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All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
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Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
— Francis Bacon
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Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine,…
— William Temple
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
— Thomas Browne
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Nature's old felicities.
— William Wordsworth
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But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them.…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
— Victor Hugo
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Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our…
— Seneca the Younger
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