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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages. -- Henry David Thoreau
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. -- Henry David Thoreau
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? -- Henry David Thoreau
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. -- Henry David Thoreau
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. -- Henry David Thoreau
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. -- Henry David Thoreau
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. -- Henry David Thoreau
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. -- Henry David Thoreau

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