“The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.”
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“He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow.”
“I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away.”
“And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.”
“The little graveyard where my people are! So small the window frames the whole of it.”
“"Men work together," I told him from the heart, "whether they work together or apart."”
“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
“The way a crow shook down on me the dust of snow from a hemlock tree.”
“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have.”
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
“Marry, and you will regret it. Do not marry, and you will also regret it.”