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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. - Max Beerbo

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. – Max Beerbohm

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How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do important work! Some people are born to lift heavy weights. Some are born to juggle with golden balls. – Max Beerbohm

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Max Beerbohm
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Nature is the art of God. – Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, 1635

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use. – Alexander Pope

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People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Natures memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. – Henry Cantwell Wallace

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Behold the child, by Natures kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. – Alexander Pope

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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Patience is better than wisdom: an ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few enough can practise it; it is a medicine which is good for all diseases, and therefore every old woman recommends it; but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834–1892), “On Patience” (John Ploughman)

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I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never – pleasurable. – Michael Morpurgo

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