William Henry Hudson

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1841-08-04

Quotes by William Henry Hudson

Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.
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When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe and reverence it inspired in him would have made him bow himself down and worship it but for the happy fact that his mind was illumined with the knowledge of the truth, he is but saying what many feel without in most cases recognizing the emotion for what it is— the sense of the supernatural in nature.
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When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe and reverence it inspired in him would have made him bow himself down and worship it but for the happy fact that his mind was illumined with the knowledge of the truth, he is but saying what many feel without in most cases recognizing the emotion for what it is— the sense of the supernatural in nature.
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Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.
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You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
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