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I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the…
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I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song…
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O beautiful human life! Tears come to my eyes as I think of it. So beautiful, so inexpressibly beautiful! The song should…
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It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by…
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An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart.
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I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.
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Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.
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The heart looks into space to be away from earth.
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That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.
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I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty.
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Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Therefore, merely because after death…
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Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.
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Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
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A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to…
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