"Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can."

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"Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can."

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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."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"My darling, what a cat they have! Something perfectly stupendous. Siamese, in colour dark beige, or taupe, with chocolate paws and the tail the same. Moreover, his tail is comparatively short, so his croup has something of a little dog, or rather, a kangaroo, and that's its colour, too. And that special silkiness of short fur, and some very tender white tints on its folds, and wonderful clear-blue eyes, turning transparently green towards evening, and a pensive tenderness of its walk, a sort of heavenly circumspection of movement. An amazing, sacred animal, and so quiet " it's unclear what he is looking at with those eyes filled to the brim with sapphire water."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"You don't need to be the tide to rise and fall, you don't have to be a wave to touch the shore; just be a little sand-grain and feel them all."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"The world was fair, the mountains tallIn Elder Days before the fall..."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock, but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Nature, Obedience, Order, Awareness

"Above all shadows rides the Sunand Stars for ever dwell:I will not say the Day is done,nor bid the Stars farewell."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Nature, Sun, Stars, Shadow, Day

"The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Nature, Reality, Life, Truth

"Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the stars or lighting the water for a moment on their death ride to the murky bottom."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Nature, Light, Darkness, Stars, Death

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"Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can."

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"Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."

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"In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable."

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"Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person."

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"There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time."

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"It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut."

Business, Eyes, Folly, Fraud

"A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest."

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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."

"You don't need to be the tide to rise and fall, you don't have to be a wave to touch the shore; just be a little sand-grain and feel them all."

"The world was fair, the mountains tallIn Elder Days before the fall..."

"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."

"The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock, but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive."

"Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed."

"Above all shadows rides the Sunand Stars for ever dwell:I will not say the Day is done,nor bid the Stars farewell."

"The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality."

"Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the stars or lighting the water for a moment on their death ride to the murky bottom."

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"Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can."

"Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends."

"Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is."

"Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference."

"Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."

"In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable."

"Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person."

"There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time."

"It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut."

"A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest."