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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

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How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

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Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

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Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

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But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

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Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively.

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The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

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The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

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[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

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The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.

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[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

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If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

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