Quotes about Harmony

See yonder leafless tree against the sky, How they diffuse themselves into the air, And ever subdividing separate, Limbs into branches, branches into twigs, As if they loved the element, & hasted To dissipate their being into it.

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

The ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong

If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.

The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceed obviously from the same source... Here is the fountain of action and of thought... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Love is as much its demand as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other.

laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face