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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
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There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain…
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Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it…
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Don't waste hate on pink geranium.
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In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.
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All we are asked to bear we can bear.
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Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith…
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The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying…
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Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world.…
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There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much…
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She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to…
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Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall; On quiet hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call.…
— Nancy Byrd Turner
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I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and…
— Anthony Trollope
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When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes…
— Aldous Huxley
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Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window…
— Marie Corelli
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In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer…
— John Vance Cheney
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