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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no read more
The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.
Nature too unkind;
That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
Nature too unkind;
That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should read more
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.
Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.
The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.
The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.