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“The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.” quote by Walter de La Mare — Download Open image

“The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.”

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“In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.”

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“When indeed you positively press your face, so to speak, against the crystalline window of your eyes, your mind is apt to become a…

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What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.

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“Away There is no sorrow Time heals never; No loss, betrayal, Beyond repair. Balm for the soul, then, Though grave shall sever Lover from loved And all they share. See the sweet sun shines The shower is over; Flowers preen their beauty, The day how fair! Brood not too closely On love, on duty; Friends long forgotten May wait you…

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“Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door.”

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As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.

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“Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn, scrutinize the little intent company sitting…

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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

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For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote,…

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We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

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“A poor old Widow in her weeds Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds; Not too shallow, and not too deep, And down came April -- drip -- drip -- drip. Up shone May, like gold, and soon Green as an arbour grew leafy June. And now all summer she sits and sews Where willow herb, comfrey, bugloss blows, Teasle and…

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Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things.…

John Keats

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Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper had died that I saw an exhibition of his, a catalogue from an exhibition, and he was showing some forms which were made by cutting and joining a lot of different parts together to create what…

Warren MacKenzie

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary…

James Madison

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History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

Henry Adams

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As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

Katharine Sergeant Angell White

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I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if…

Gordon Lightfoot

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Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue.

Woody Allen

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Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life,…

Horace Mann