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Mary Howitt has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy…
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He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
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Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of…
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God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -- to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish,…
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True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things.
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I know he's coming by this sign, That baby's almost wild; See how he laughs and crows and starts — Heaven, bless…
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Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.
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Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.
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Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow…
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God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us…
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For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
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These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,…
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Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling,…
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Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.
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The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
— William Shakespeare
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By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.
— Opal Whiteley
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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
— Wallace Stegner
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The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a…
— James Lane Allen
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Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.
— Gautama Buddha
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To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the…
— Herbert Hoover
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