I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.

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• Richard Jefferies:

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

• Richard Jefferies:

  The heart looks into space to be away from earth.

• Richard Jefferies:

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

• Richard Jefferies:

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

• Richard Jefferies:

  Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Ther

• Richard Jefferies:

  Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

• Richard Jefferies:

  To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purpo

• Richard Jefferies:

  Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?

• Richard Jefferies:

  A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read

• Richard Jefferies:

  The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an