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- We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity…
- I was determined to know beans.
- "Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel,…
- Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there…
- I did not know that we had ever quarreled.
- No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet…
- 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…
- Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
- He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports…
- Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect…
- You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else…
- I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was…
- I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use…
- Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
- We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
- Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what do we teach…
- In their daily life, all are braver than they know.
- Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized…
- I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the…
- I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know…
- To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we…
- The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.
- The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native…
- I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know…
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