Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me
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If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.John Lubbock
Some words are like rays of sunshine, others like barbed arrows or the bite of a serpent. And if hard words cut so deep, how much pleasure can kind ones give.
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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
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If you have written a clever and conclusive, but scathing letter, keep it back till the next day, And it will very often never go at all.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
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