“If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, — I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.”
― Nature and Selected Essays
― Nature and Selected Essays
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
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“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
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“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”
― Nature
― Nature
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