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We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed by the fretful…

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We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks…
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the…
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be…
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary.…
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of…
Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in…
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation…
The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains,…
I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and seen the…
We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed…

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and… — Thornton T. Munger
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may… — William Cowper
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it… — Robert A. Heinlein
The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart. — William Wordsworth
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on… — William Barclay
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own… — Samuel Johnson
Idle hands make fretful minds. — Shelley Shepard Gray
People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated… — Peter York
"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone.… — Lewis Carroll
I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is… — Richard Hovey
Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the… — William Shakespeare

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