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His heart was in his garden; but his brain
Wandered at will among the fiery stars.

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

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Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard. "Sonnets: Part II." Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864.

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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

John Muir

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Muir, John. Journal entry. 1869.

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Muir, John. "My First Summer in the Sierra." John Muir: Nature Writings. Library of America, 1997, ch. 6.

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Serene, I fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For lo! my own shall come to me.

John Burroughs

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Burroughs, John. "Waiting." The Knickerbocker. New York, Mar. 1863.

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Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

Ivan Turgenev

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Turgenev, Ivan. "Накануне [On the Eve]." The Russian Messenger, 1859.

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Turgenev, Ivan. On the Eve, translated by Michael Pursglove. Alma Classics, 2017, ch. 35.

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We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree,
To wither and perish- but nought changeth Thee.

Walter Chalmers Smith

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God, All in All

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Smith, Walter Chalmers. "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise." Hymns of Christ and the Christian Life. London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1867.

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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

John Henry Newman

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Newman, John Henry. "History of my Religious Opinions up to 1833." Apologia Pro Vita Sua. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.

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Newman, John Henry. "History of my Religious Opinions up to 1833." Apologia Pro Vita Sua, edited by Ian Ker. Penguin Classics, 1995.

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The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot, Walter. "The Cabinet." The English Constitution. London: Chapman and Hall, 1867. Originally published in The Fortnightly Review, 15 May 1865 - 1 Jan. 1867.

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I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

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Peacock, Thomas Love. "Gryll Grange." Fraser's Magazine, 1860.

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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

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Ruskin, John. "Of Kings Treasures." Sesame and Lilies. 1864, Manchester, UK.

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Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 18, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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The first duty of a State is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed, and educated, till it attain years of discretion.

John Ruskin

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Ruskin, John. Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867, letter 13.

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Ruskin, John. "Time and Tide." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 17, Cambridge University Press, 2010, letter 13.

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A desire for wealth is the source of all progress. Civilization comes from what men call greed. Let your mercenary tendencies be combined with honesty and they cannot take you astray.

Anthony Trollope

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Trollope, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her? 1864-1865. Serial.

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Trollope, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her? Penguin Classics, 1975.

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I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labour, and at the expiration of that time I should feel fresh and vigorous enough to go right on in the same way for numerous more months.

Artemus Ward

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Ward, Artemus. Artemus Ward in London, and Other Papers. New York: G.W. Carleton & Co./London: S. Low, Son & Co., 1867, ch. 9.

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Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad

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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869, ch. 55.

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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003, ch. 55.

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I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Charles Dickens

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 22 Dec. 1860, issue 4, ch. 6.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 6.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Progress of Culture." Phi Beta Kappa society meeting. 18 July 1867, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, UK.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

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Hugo, Victor. Le roi s'amuse [The King Amuses Himself]. 22 Nov. 1832, La Comédie Française, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 4.

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Hugo, Victor. "The King Amuses Himself." Three Plays by Victor Hugo, translated by Camilla Crosland and Frederick L. Slous. Washington Square Press, 1964.

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These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Public and Private Education." 27 Nov. 1864, Boston, MA, USA.

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If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality—its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extention—its enlargement.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City." 27 Feb. 1860, New York City, NY, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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