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“The foregoing generations beheld Divinity and Nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the Universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of Life stream around and through us... The sun shines to-day also!”
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“To own a Susan of my own / Is of itself a Bliss / Whatever Realm I forfeit, Lord, / Continue me in this!”
― The Letters of Emily Dickinson
― The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before. It”
― Walden
― Walden
“That pleasure which is at once the most intense, the most elevating, and the most pure is, I believe, found in the contemplation of the beautiful. When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect—they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul.”
― The Philosophy of Composition
― The Philosophy of Composition
“What are men compared to rocks and mountains?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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