It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. – Aesop
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. – Henry David Thoreau
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers – a living prismatic gem…. it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. – W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions
A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west, Where the sun, his days work ended, Lingers as in content, There falls on the old, gray city An influence luminous and serene, A shining peace. – William Ernest Henley
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling. – William Cobbett
I taught in a small teachers college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didnt. – David Eddings
