Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond, since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
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One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving se with the tide always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.Freya Stark
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
Freya Stark
It is only the amateur gardener like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.
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The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
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This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you it is yours now for ever.
Freya Stark
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
Freya Stark
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