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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
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