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The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at. - William Cullen Bryant
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The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea. - William Cullen Bryant
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I think I shall return to America even a better patriot than when I left it. A citizen of the United States, travelling on the continent of Europe, finds the contrast between a government of power and a government of opinion forced upon him at every step. - William Cullen Bryant
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Eloquence is the poetry of prose. - William Cullen Bryant
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. - William Cullen Bryant
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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. - William Cullen Bryant
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A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians. - William Cullen Bryant
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Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. - William Cullen Bryant
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A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine. - William Cullen Bryant
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Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? - William Cullen Bryant
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To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. - William Cullen Bryant
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The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. - William Cullen Bryant
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The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. - William Cullen Bryant
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Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. - William Cullen Bryant
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Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. - William Cullen Bryant
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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. - William Cullen Bryant
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The groves were God's first temples. - William Cullen Bryant
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Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. - William Cullen Bryant
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A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. - William Cullen Bryant
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Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. - William Cullen Bryant
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And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death. - William Cullen Bryant
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