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- I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
- Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.
- 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…
- Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him…
- Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to…
- 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…
- We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.
- It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he…
- I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and…
- We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.
- It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you…
- It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
- If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
- As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at…
- The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood…
- I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily…
- The question is not what you look at--but how you look, and whether you see.
- We must look a long time before we can see
- The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.
- If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.
- 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…
- It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no…
- 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…
- A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
- When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,…
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