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- Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but…
- Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety…
- No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may…
- Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with…
- The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
- If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's…
- Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living…
- We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to…
- I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.
- I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
- I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and…
- You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
- Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
- Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
- I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we…
- Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period,…
- 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…
- Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against…
- I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so…
- I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the…
- Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.
- 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…
- Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or…
- To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all…
- Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he…
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