"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."

Nature, Gratitude, Burden

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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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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"When I am in nature, my heart dances with butterflies and sings along with flowers."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown."

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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."

Fear, Fools, Majority, Mankind

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

Thought, Thoughts, Care, Clothes, Dress

"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."

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

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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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"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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"Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately."

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

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

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