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- Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and…
- The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
- "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,…
- The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
- Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."
- If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so…
- How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
- Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried.
- We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
- I have no time to be in a hurry.
- Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
- The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time…
- The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
- Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
- We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.
- Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.
- Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.
- When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How…
- We must look a long time before we can see
- You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow.…
- You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
- Oh, one world at a time!
- In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in…
- One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be…
- There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who…
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