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This is a glorious region, and the air and life are intoxicating.
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We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the final reconciliation.
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As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths in the heart of man which the storms of sin and sorrow can never disturb.
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Under our system there is a remedy for all mere political evils in the sound sense and sober judgment of the people.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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The friend, however, took her in, and the friend's husband was obliged to sleep upon a bench in the park every night for a week, which he did uncomplainingly if not cheerfully.
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If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.
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The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people.
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Nature loves such woods, and places her own seal upon them.
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The emotions excited by the songs of these thrushes belong to a higher order, springing as they do from our deepest sense of the beauty and harmony of the world.
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Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process.
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In final account, then, not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates.
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Standing here in the deep, brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless, as if the work of creation were done.
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Every feature became more rigidly alpine, without, however, producing any chilling effect; for going to the mountains is like going home.
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After listening to it in all kinds of winds, night and day, season after season, I think I could approximate to my position on the mountains by this pine-music alone.
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Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted.
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Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Everything kept in joyful rhythmic motion in the pulses of Nature's big heart.
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Only spread a fern frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
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The whole world seems richer now that I have found this plant in so noble a landscape.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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To admit that this picture has its shades is but to say that it is still the condition of men upon earth.
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Liberty and law have marched hand in hand.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.