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• Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel,…
• The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
• If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is…
• The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit…
• Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
• We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining…
• Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
• I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?
• A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in…
• It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be…
• It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
• She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from…

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