"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
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"The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other."
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"Trees are your best antiques"
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"Christmas is the day that holds all time together."
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"Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together."
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"In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air."
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"Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile."
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"A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."
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"In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October."
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"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."
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"If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste."
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"The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn."
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"A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity."
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"I go into my library and all history unrolls before me."
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"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."
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"The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide."
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"There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade."
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"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."
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"Everything is sweetened by risk."
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"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."
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