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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.
E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.
It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.
There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.
The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.
We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?