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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
The vessel, though her masts be firm,
Beneath her copper bears a worm.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
Most books belong to the house and streets only, and in the fields their leaves feel very thin.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
A poem is one undivided unimpeded expression fallen ripe into literature, and it is undividedly and unimpededly received by those for whom it was matured.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
It is so rare to meet with a man out-doors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
Men reverence one another, not yet God.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)