"The silence was enchanting. Infinite space seemed to enter it, and my spirit, alone with the stars, seemed capable of any adventure."

Wonder, Silence, Adventure, Spiritual, Stars

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"The silence was enchanting. Infinite space seemed to enter it, and my spirit, alone with the stars, seemed capable of any adventure."

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"Wonder exist in every act of life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Lights twinkled in little casements; which lights, as the casements darkened, and more stars came out, seemed to have shot up into the sky instead of having been extinguished."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"The table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

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"We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"We salute the Brain, that made the Plane and the Train, But who made the Brain?"

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"The wonder of life shouldn't be squandered on insignificant or unbeneficial experiences."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."

Values

"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."

Expediency

"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."

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"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."

Party

"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."

Censure

"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."

Comfort

"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."

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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

Rules

"The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress."

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"A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man."

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