“The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.”
― Nature
― Nature
“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”
― Nature and Selected Essays
― Nature and Selected Essays
“Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.”
― Nature
― Nature
“The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.”
― Nature
― Nature
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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