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- I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a…
- Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
- A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.
- Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
- No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or…
- All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.
- 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…
- I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but…
- For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which…
- The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.
- Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty.…
- Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had…
- I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
- Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of…
- 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…
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