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All things are engaged in writing their history...Not a foot steps into the snow, or along the ground, but prints in characters more or less lasting, ...more

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We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which ...more

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The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the fallin...more

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Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounce...more

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Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world....more

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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

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Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.