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“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship”
“The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.”
“Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.”
“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough”
“There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.”
“The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.”
“Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?”
“A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it withou...”
“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me”
“Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tenden...”
“But if a man be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent wit...”
“All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and motion, that every globe in the remotest hea...”
“Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.”
