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• It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful
  but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do....
• It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful
  but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do....
• Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn.
  The sun is but a morning star. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde...
• Only that day dawns to which we are awake. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde
• I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• As I went under the new telegraph-wire, I heard it vibrating like a harp high overhead.
  It was as the sound of a far-off glorious life, a supernal life, which came down to us, and vibrated the lattice-work of this life of ours....
• Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
• Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it.