Richard Jefferies
Writer
1848-11-06
Quotes by Richard Jefferies
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The heart looks into space to be away from earth.
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It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further.
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It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.
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This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.
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Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.
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Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.
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No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
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Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a man who believes that he is entitled to a large property in Chancery, or elsewhere, as the heir.
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If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.
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Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong.
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The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.
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The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.
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