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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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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in…
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In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being…
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When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of…
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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to…
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All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of…
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