People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
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Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
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If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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