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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

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The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

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The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

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We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

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The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

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I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

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The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.

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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

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It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

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He only is rich who owns the day.

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All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

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