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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation…
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
— Joseph Addison
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Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow…
— Terry Kay
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Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget…
— Unknown Author
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At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.
— Wallace Stevens
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I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because…
— Bobbie Ann Mason
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The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living,…
— John McLeod
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The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.
— Elliott Smith
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Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story,…
— Lauren DeStefano
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We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.
— Susan Griffin
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The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns;…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
— Anne Stevenson
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