Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
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... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
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I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will remember you in that.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
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From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to… — Rachel Copy Share Image
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Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
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Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My worst job was packing animal feed in a warehouse in Gloucestershire when I was a student. It was a very strange… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Clothing that covers the body can be comfortable or uncomfortable, depending on the fabric. In India I typically wear a full salwaar… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
It's ok to fail. Failing does not shape your personality; it's how you react upon your failure. Do you dust yourself off… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
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Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
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Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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