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"Human nature is above all things lazy."
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"Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul."
"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"
"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."
"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
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"All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order."
"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."
"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."
"To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably."
"I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place."
"In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike."
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