Garden Quote by Galen Beckett

“Cannot a rugged and misty landscape be adored by the eyes as much as a sunlit garden? Perhaps it is adored even more for not seeking to make itself adorable.” quote by Galen Beckett — Download Open image

““Cannot a rugged and misty landscape be adored by the eyes as much as a sunlit garden? Perhaps it is adored even more for not seeking to make itself adorable.””

Galen Beckett

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“The man who does the greatest harm is the man who does nothing at all.”

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I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those…

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A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life. A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you, it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt,…

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“An eye will tend to behold what its owner expects to see.”

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when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

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