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- The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
- Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every…
- Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
- 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…
- By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening,…
- Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?
- 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…
- For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do…
- We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we…
- It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels,…
- Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it…
- If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if…
- We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life…
- The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.
- Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at…
- Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
- I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out…
- In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the…
- 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…
- The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere…
- We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To…
- I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when…
- I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.
- I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by…
- He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
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- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood