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The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.
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Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.
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Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
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Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.
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Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
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We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.
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There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
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If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.
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There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.
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