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Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.
The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning
As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.
What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.
The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.
The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.
I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.
The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.
The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.
A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.
And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.
It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.
There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.
Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.
A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.
We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.
My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.
The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.