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- When we build, let us think that we build forever.
- Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
- Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
- Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening…
- God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do.
- How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the…
- See! This our fathers did for us.
- Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this…
- Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied…
- Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our…
- Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
- ... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also…
- God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after…
- If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would…
- In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end…
- Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds…
- Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
- All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it,…
- Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
- It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the…
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