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- The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we…
- Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?
- The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in…
- The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his…
- Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
- Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
- He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
- I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent…
- Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which…
- Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the…
- The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there…
- He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
- Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
- The city is recruited from the country.
- From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
- No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
- In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not…
- The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if…
- It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully…
- Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
- In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact…
- The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
- We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when…
- The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other…
- The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anewÂ… it passes into other…
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