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Nature's voice and Nature's beauty---God's soothing and purifying angels of the soul---speak to me most tenderly and most happily, at such times as th...more

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I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.

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Did you fall asleep?""No. I couldn't sleep that night.""You were restless?""I was thinking of you."The answer almost unmanned me. Something in the ton...more

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But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars t...more

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I have abstained from expressing any opinion, so far," says Mr. Superintendent, with his military voice still in good working order. "I have now only ...more

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I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

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The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown t...more

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Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and...more

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At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural world amid which ...more

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The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown t...more

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Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, t...more

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If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she wou...more