The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine, Moves all the labouring surges of the world.
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Know you what it is to be a child It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.
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In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.
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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
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I do not believe that Nature has a heart and I suspect that, like many another beauty, she has been credited with a heart because of her face.
Francis Thompson
Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet. And all the things are made young with young desires.
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