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When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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Mike Forsberg's images give us bright openings onto a world. . . . Here on the Great Plains both people and trees… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
When consciousness has awakened it is not something sensational or spectacular. It's simply a reality as natural as the one of a… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
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I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing… — Ashley Rickards Copy Share Image
This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
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There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow,… — Chris Baines Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I… — Tyson Chandler Copy Share Image
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Our testimonies, like . . . trees, must be built on a sure foundation, deeply rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ,… — Sheldon F. Child Copy Share Image
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
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He was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse.… — Joseph Sittler Copy Share Image
There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
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