Quote #42

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

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  1. In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
  2. One should always learn to enjoy the neighbor's garden, however small; the roses straggling over the fence, the scent of lilacs drifting ac…
  3. I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real batt…
  4. Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
  5. He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he haith not seen shall bless him.
  6. Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
  7. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic f…
  8. The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

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