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We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.
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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
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As the power or genius of nature is ecstatic, so must its science or the description of it be.
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Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.
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I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.
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Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
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As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.
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In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
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Born:
May 25, 1803
Died:
April 27, 1882
(aged 78)
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