"On tops of mountains, as everywhere to..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.
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“It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.”
“What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.”
“The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.”
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“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.”
“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?”
“When you are sorrowful, look again.”