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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."
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"Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure."
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"You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud."
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"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."
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Personal Development
"Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside."
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"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."
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"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
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"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."
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"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly."
Trust
"Now I knew that life and truth were one; that life mere and pure is in itself bliss; that where being is not bliss, it is not life, but life-in-death. Every inspiration of the dark wind that blew where it listed went out a sigh of thanksgiving. At last I was! I lived, and nothing could touch my life! My darling walked beside me, and we were on our way home to see the Father!"
Spiritual
"How kind you are, North Wind!''I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it."
Ethics
"One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my beautiful thoughts and my love for the things God has made. But I find that the happiness springing from all things not in themselves sinful is much increased by religion. God is the God of the Beautiful-Religion is the love of the Beautiful, and Heaven is the Home of the Beautiful--Nature is tenfold brighter in the Sun of Righteousness, and my love of Nature is more intense since I became a Christian--if indeed I am one. God has not given me such thoughts and forbidden me to enjoy them."
Religion
"Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it."
Relationship
"The main secret of his progress, the secret of all wisdom, was, that with him action was the beginning and end of thought."
Wisdom
"It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down."
Man
"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."
God
"I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans."
Time
"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
Man
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