It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
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The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morningof creation.
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We hate the kindness which we understand.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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