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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take,…
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency,…
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a…
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Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.
— James A. Garfield
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So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it…
— Ramakrishna
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By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the…
— John Burroughs
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Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.
— William Wetmore Story
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Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out…
— Sebastian Faulks
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Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a…
— Hermann Hesse
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