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"Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful."
"Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere."
"The devil finds work for idle hands."
"All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong."
"Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way."
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."
"The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness."
"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now."
"It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear."
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."
"The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind."
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
"The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures."
"It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar."
"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees."
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind."
"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."