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- The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a…
- Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but…
- I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say…
- Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life…
- As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an…
- Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must…
- I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel trach. An inch more to the right…
- The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
- 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…
- 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…
- Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
- Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then…
- Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
- Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction -…
- 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…
- The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask…
- It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the…
- In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.
- I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.
- We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If…
- Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,…
- I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one…
- Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,…
- It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up…
- I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by…
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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong