Richard Jefferies Quotes

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Richard Jefferies

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 6, 1848

The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.

Richard Jefferies

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

Richard Jefferies

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

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

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

Richard Jefferies

I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty.

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Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

Richard Jefferies

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.

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Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.

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That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

Richard Jefferies

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.

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Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.

Richard Jefferies

The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow.

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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

A woman can see a woman so clearly - faluts, excellences, details - all are so clear to her.

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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

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

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

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