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Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies
English Writer
Born: Nov 6, 1848
Died: Aug 14, 1887
Alone Good Man Me Soul Will
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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. Richard Jefferies
Day History Matter Will Evil Men Own Our Despot Tyrant Sight Bitterest Rushed Saddest Most Execute Read Ready How However His Hands Serve Eagerly
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. Richard Jefferies
Heart Longing Unknown Penetrate Has-Been Winding Shadow Seems Foot Yearning Been Human Where Deep
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. Richard Jefferies
Good Man Science Good Man Evil Power Enormous Telegraph Press Puts Advantage Equal Also Printing Printing Press Offers Hands Same Double-Edged Double-Edged Sword Moment Illustrated Railway Sword
If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest. Richard Jefferies
Plant Every Flower Everything Locality Would Charm Varies Gives Were Exist Interest Places Found
Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings. Richard Jefferies
World Desolate Has-Been Haunt Supernatural Since Been Began Places Mankind Special Beings Belief Ever
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds. Richard Jefferies
Way Would Tries Seem Observing Fails Another Ant Where Place Succeeds Works
A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still, soft atmosphere of early autumn, when the gossamer falls in showers, coming straight down as if it were raining silk. Richard Jefferies
Will Wind Calm Autumn Breath Down Summer Silk Atmosphere He Days Dead Does Hover Still Coming Were Falls Straight Showers Raining Early Soft
I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope. Richard Jefferies
Hope Soul Mind Broader Insight Greatness Deeper Desire
That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul. Richard Jefferies
Me Soul Beauty Divine May Bring
Now is eternity; now is the immortal life. Richard Jefferies
Life Immortal Eternity Now
Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants. Richard Jefferies
Good Change Joy Men Miserable Believe Would Some Only Delight Well-To-Do Verily Condition Them Village Position
When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone. Richard Jefferies
Alone Loneliness Man Logical Mind First Own Strictly Marked Prominence Strongly Fact Remarkable He Attending Attention Perhaps Most Attract Looks Existence Stands Even Round Phenomena
It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances. Richard Jefferies
Mind Circumstances Well Always Surrounded Same Place Body
Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Therefore, merely because after death the soul is not visible is no demonstration that it does not still live. Richard Jefferies
Death Soul Live Living Visible Only Merely Look Another Because Does Still Demonstration Person After Which While Body Therefore
A woman can see a woman so clearly - faluts, excellences, details - all are so clear to her. Richard Jefferies
Woman Details See Clear Clearly Her
Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her. Richard Jefferies
Man Woman Master Own Every Way See Over Likes Concern Another Another Woman Does Endure Who Even Her
Do you always do as you would like to do were it in your power? I find that circumstances force me often to act in a manner quite opposite to what I should prefer; I am, of course, judged by my acts, but do they really afford a true key to my character? I think not. Richard Jefferies
Character Me You Key Power Think Circumstances Would Find True Like Force Judged Course Always Am Opposite Were Afford Quite Often Prefer Manner Really Should Act Your Acts
Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His unfortunate walk betrays him, dress how he will. Richard Jefferies
Good Sometimes Walk Will Sunday Black Clothes Every Dress Pot Betrays He Almost Him How His Very Labourer Often Unfortunate Chimney Really Regulation Suit
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work. Richard Jefferies
Work Impossible Single Believe Thoroughly Bad Would Would-Be Find Proper Cottage Throughout Well Fit Any Done Human Estate Human Beings Breadth Length Landed Landlords Farmers Large Beings Now
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. Richard Jefferies
Property Man People Entitled Elsewhere Find Uncommon He Trace Well-To-Do Heir Farmers Who Large Many Descent Believes Here
It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant. Richard Jefferies
Speak Those Easier Similar Had Than Experiences Ignorant Who
To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness. Richard Jefferies
Natural Darkness Sometimes Claim Unaccountable Spirits Seem Felt Us Realm Boldest Thick Night Creeping

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