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"Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bêtes, témoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté."
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"The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind starswaiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
"Then the immortal heart of the woods will beat against ours and its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us its own forever, so that no matter where we go or how widely we wander we shall yet be drawn back to the forest to find our most enduring kinship."
"Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?"
"Mountains in the distance remind me of you."
"No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere."
"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."
"It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth of the day's sun. At first there were only occasional sparkles, but as it got darker Chuck was lost in a daze pf delight as a galaxy of fireflies twinkled on and off, flinging upward in a blaze of light, dropping earthward like falling stars, moving in contiuous effervescent dance."
"Dark night knows what full moon requires When all your love my heart acquiresCelestial bodies no more faded Life makes sound, silence invaded."
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
"We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health."
"We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom."
"If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves."
"Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance."
"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."
"Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health."
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