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- The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a…
- If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
- When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.
- High treason, when it is resistance to tyranny here below, has its origin in, and isfirst committed by, the powerthat makes and forever re-creates man.
- Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than anydespot's, yet to man's daily life they rarely seem rigid, butpermit him…
- According to my observation,a batteau, properly manned, shoots rapids as a matter of course, which a single Indian with a canoe carries round.
- Let not the poet shed tears only for the public weal.
- It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.
- If one hesitates in his path, lethim not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.
- In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human…
- Far in the night, as we were falling asleep on the bank of the Merrimack, we heard some tyro beating a drum incessantly, in preparation…
- The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.
- As we drew near to Old town Iasked Polis if he was not glad to get home again; but there was no relenting to his…
- It seems to us that no travelerhas ever explored them, and not with standing the wonders which science is else where revealing every day, who…
- The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken…
- Its virtues, not its sins, are as scarlet
- He could not have been tried by a jury of his peers, becausehis peers did not exist.
- At this season I seldom had a visitor. When the snow lay deepest no wanderer venturednear my house for a week or fortnight at a…
- How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were tobegin the…
- This generation has come intothe world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before…
- Soon my companions were lost to my sight behind the mountain ridge in my rear, which still seemed ever retreating before me, and I climbed…
- All the morning we had heardthe sea roar on the eastern shore, which was several miles distant.... It was a very inspiriting sound to walk…
- The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a uniform…
- They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and…
- A written word is the choicestof relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.…
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