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Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."

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"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."

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"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

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"Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die."

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"Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties."

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"The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing."

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"Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting Africa in the night."

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"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

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"The earth is a great piece of stupidity."

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"Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world."

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"All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling."

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"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."

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"Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself."
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"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."
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"Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell."
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"She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!"
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"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary."
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"If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days."
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."
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