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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.

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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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