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The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage, paralyzing the understanding, and that without prod...more

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

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There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient...more

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope t...more

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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality...more

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The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impert...more

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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like man...more

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

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I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranq...more

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the ci...more

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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with ...more