The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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