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The Deerslayer
James Fenimore Cooper
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.”
“God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.”
“The woods are but the ears of the Almighty, the air is his breath, and the light of the sun is little more than a glance of his eye.”
“Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.”
“If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an udersized opinion of himself.”
“The deer that goes too often to the lick meets the hunter at last!”
“And where, then, is your sweetheart, Deerslayer?" "She's in the forest, Judith—hanging from the boughs of the trees, in a soft rain—in the dew on the open grass—the clouds that float about in the blue heavens—the birds that sing in the woods—the sweet springs where I slake my thirst—and in all the other glorious gifts that come from God's Providence!”
“The arches of the woods, even at high noon, cast their sombre shadows on the spot, which the brilliant rays of the sun that struggled through the leaves contributed to mellow, and if such an expression can be used, to illuminate. It was probably from a similar scene that the mind of man first got its idea of the effects of gothic tracery and churchly hues, this temple of nature producing some such effect, so far as light and shadow were concerned, as the well-known offspring of human invention.”
“Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.”
“When men speak, they should say that which does not go in at one side of the head and out at the other. Their words shouldn't be feathers, so light that a wind which does not ruffle the water can blow them away.”
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