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The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.
I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.
I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.
The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.
Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.
I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.
It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.
The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?
Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.
The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.
All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.
It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.
We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.
If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.
If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.