Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
From Henry David Thoreau
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
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