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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Benefits Conferred Gradually Taste better.
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Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

Again Best Brightest Built
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The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

Beauty Call Dell Devout
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The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

Acquired Approach Away Compelled
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Hatred Gained Good Work
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

Bark Birds Brush Centuries
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Prince Never lack Legitimate Promise
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Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Animal Clean Earth Eating
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It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

Any Easier Explain Feel
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Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

Any Area Butterflies Different
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A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don't know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

Excursion Far Fellow He
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Promise Necessity Past Broken
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

All The Facts Anything Astonished Call
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From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

Common Companions Creator Creature
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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Adventurous Armed Beasts Came
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In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Avalanche Came Danger End
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

California Continent Part Wild
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Allowing Another Beautiful Building
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I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

Anything Bread Considered Days
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Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Calm Days Divine Equally
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Double Pleasure Deceive
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

Baptist Beauty Care Eager
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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Injury Severe Vengeance Feared
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I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

About Afraid Because Book
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Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

Addictions Attempts Because Best
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I was taught that pain is bad.

Bad Was Pain Taught
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Anything Achieved Danger
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I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

Boy Brother Could Father
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I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

Addict Any Became Because
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Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Against Art Be True Bible
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Acquainted Adversity Becomes Being
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Ability Accomplished Measure Should
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Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.
Am I Am Intimacy Reality
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Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.

Chart Color Feelings Given
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There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

America Angry Change Heart
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Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

Addictions Beneath Control Disease
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What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

Basketball Basketball Player Far Important
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I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Appreciate Baseball Been Born
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I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.
Gift Gifts Give Like
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Any Background Been Biology
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Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

Enduring Love Love Is Momentary
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I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

Activity Any Business Family
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Commonwealth Define Easy Enough
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I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

Aware Bad Good Good And Bad
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My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

Around Away Eyesight Going
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If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.

Assistants Careful Coach Extremely
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I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

Also Deny Going Opposed
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If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

Anything Could Different Fact
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I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

Been Important In The Past Like
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I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

Anyone Anyone Else Built Dad
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