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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Branches Cease Ear Enthusiasm
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself

Conquers Demolish Commits Great error.
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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Destroyed Treated Revenge Slight injury
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Away Awhile Break Clean
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Willing Everything Share Glory
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Wish Obeyed Command
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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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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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Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Hungry Like People Sheep
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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Change Leaves Establishment
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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 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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Shrink Offending Inspire Fear
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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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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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No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Any Ever Gentleman Lady
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We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

Constant Exposed Family Fear
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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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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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We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.

Because Feelings Intimate Share
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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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It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Finishes Game Important Starts
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Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

About Army Book Church
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Clear Individual Lessons Life
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Before Belong Declare Devoted
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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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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

American Because Colonies Impossible
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Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

Dictionary Hate Important Important Thing
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I've always been a little shy about taking my clothes off, but I don't worry about it any more.

Always Shy Little Been
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Best Families Family Impetuous
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The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Always Been British Constitution
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I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.

Love Have Bath With
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There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

There No Shortcut Learning
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

Bible Counsel Found Greater
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

Been Benefit Consequence Deep
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

All My Heart All My Life Heart Life
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Fashion Adopt Who you are.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
Fashion Decide Style
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

Relationship Untrue Partnership
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Achieving Successful Relationship Disaster
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Vice Reward Marketed Consumer
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

Shortens Journey Misfortunes Hearer
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

English Incompetence Sincerity
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As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)
Closeness Relationship Sex Patch
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Married Human Unnatural State
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

Peace Form Cases
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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

Been Being Books Broad
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