"I thank Heaven every summer's day of my……" — Donald G. Mitchell
"I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks."
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14 Quotes by Donald G. Mitchell
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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
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The future is wider than vision, and has no end.
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There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
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I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the…
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In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple…
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You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
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Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and…
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Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like…
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The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world…
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I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at…
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Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of…
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No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.
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