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The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.

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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine p...more

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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is ...more

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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends ...more

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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse. ...more

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The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to t...more

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I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

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I am in love with this world... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its seasons, and always have I reaped what I h...more