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"Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done-peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color."
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"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."
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"Custom is second nature."
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"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."
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"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."
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"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."
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"There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!"
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"Tess was awake before dawn - at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken."
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"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
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"Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist breath whistling through willow reeds; a pattering beat background to the mourner's melody. Rain is a soft song of compassion for the brokenhearted."
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"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
Education
"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
Being
"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."
Bible
"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
Man
"To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all."
God
"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell."
People
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
Fear
"I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman."
Death
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
Law
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."
Faith
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