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• True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there…
• Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice…
• And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
• Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
• Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
• Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
• The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
• The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
• What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
• One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
• To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything…
• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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