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.
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If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.Freya Stark
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
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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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Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
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