A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm maintain simplicity of taste and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.Henry Ward Beecher
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease and bring new elements of health and where free speech is stopped, miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Flowers ... have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
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