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Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brot...more

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As many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation, and no longer strangers and pilgr...more

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

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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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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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An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, —"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy shall me...more

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may ent...more

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To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

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

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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.

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Earth laughs in flowers.

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible