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"In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles."
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"Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done-peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color."
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"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."
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"Custom is second nature."
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"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."
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"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."
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"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."
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"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."
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"There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!"
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"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"
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"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."
Business
"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
Thought
"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."
Education
"Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother."
Equality
"The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear."
Fear
"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin."
Faith
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
Man
"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
Knowledge
"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
Men
"Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards."
Time
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