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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hosti

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Loneliness
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Elizabeth Bowen
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Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. – Karl Baker

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Enough shovels of earth — a mountain. Enough pails of water — a river. – Chinese Proverb

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When a bonsai stops growing, you know its dead. – Japanese Proverb

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Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. – Rupert Brooke

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