Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
Conformity is the ape of harmony.
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
How much finer things are in composition than alone.
It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.
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