Quote by Jane Austen
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the mos

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. – Jane Austen

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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable. – Jane Austen

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. – Jane Austen

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Although Im an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. – Camille Paglia

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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. – Edgar Allan Poe

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To him who, in the love of Nature, holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language. – William Cullen Bryant

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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased. – Alexander Hamilton

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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. – James F. Cooper

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Its just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. – Muhammad Ali

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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. – Daisaku Ikeda

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No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy. – John Alfred Landford

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