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To be beautiful and to be calm, without mental fear, is the ideal of nature. If I cannot achieve it, at least I can think it.
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If trees could speak, hundreds of them would say that I had had these soul-emotions under them.
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The hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live, so that the longer we can stay among these things so much the more is snatched from inevitable Time.
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A species of thick clothing slowly grows about the mind, the pores are choked, little habits become a part of existence, and by degrees the mind is inclosed in a husk.
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Just to touch the lichened bark of a tree, or the end of a spray projecting over the path as I walked, seemed to repeat the same prayer in me.
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Clumsy indeed are all words the moment the wooden stage of commonplace life is left.
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It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.