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

"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."

"Listen to what the sky is telling you."

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

"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."

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

"When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us."

"I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn't, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it's trailing edge faded into darkness, so close to being full, but not quite there. A pregnant moon, Grandma called it. Full almost to bursting, and ready to give birth to something unthinkable."
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"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty."


"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."


"All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity."


"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay."


"Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate."


"The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal."


"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised."


"In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural."
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