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I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them all.

Beryl Markham

I have a trunk containing continents.
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Containing Continents Trunks
I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.
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Beyond Children Dream Hope Need
Success breeds confidence.
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Confidence Inspirational Success
If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.
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Guilty Hunches Inspired
Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
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Errors Inspirational Thinking
[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.
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Kind Lions Men Unaccustomed
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy.
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Animals Elephant Men
Conformation … but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere – in men, in horses, and in women.
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Heart Horse Men
Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.
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Clouds Distance Years
After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work
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Hope More Work
Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin’s lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it.
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Hand Human Being Lottery Winning Other
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.
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Curves Future Men Stars
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse.
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Believe Dog Horse Universal
the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.
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Dispassionate Hands Men Mind
A lovely horse is always an experience…. It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
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Cowboy Emotional Horse
A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.
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Men Riddled Water Years

I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them all.

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I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them all.

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