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- But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes…
- The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any…
- All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
- I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the…
- Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
- It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but…
- True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments…
- Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the…
- It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.
- The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background,…
- We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the…
- The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this…
- The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one…
- The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is…
- What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity…
- There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
- I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out…
- This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have…
- We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion…
- I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know…
- A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must…
- The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within…
- The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any…
- 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 man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not…
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