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"The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering from want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got."
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"Christmas is a whisper of peace and a sigh of hope on the lips of love."
"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
"It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day " or as he sleeps " simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere " us " I know I have a chance."
"A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!"
"Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!"
"And without forgiveness, there is never any peace."
"Peace of mind! All we need is peace of mind!"
"The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. .."
"Make peace with people, make peace with animals, make peace with trees!"
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"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances."
"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."
"The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it."
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