"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion."
-William C. Bryant
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"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."
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"Eloquence is the poetry of prose."
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"The groves were God's first temples."
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"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."
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"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."
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"I have a bit of a rebellious nature."
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"It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal."
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"I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop."
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"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
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"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
-Charles Eastman
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