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"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair."
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
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"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."
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"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."
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"Niagara Falls is a magnificent fall of dancing, singing, glowing, and flowing liquid love that exists to reconnect broken hearts."
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"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."
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"When I am lost in the wonder of nature, my life is vivacious."
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"We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him."
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"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."
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"Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost."
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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
Language

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
Wisdom

"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."
Wisdom

"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
Life

"One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning."
Learning

"I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways; they never look sour, they never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got one, and they are always ready for a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose."
Friendship

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Happiness

"In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to cover, and George came in with a peculiarly lacerating screech on the final note and slaughtered it. Nobody mourned. We carried out the corpse on three cheers (that joke was not intentional and I do not endorse it)."
Humor

"Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish."
Humor

"The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires."
Spirit
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