"Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace."
-James Thomson
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"But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?“
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"I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?"
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"That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others."
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"Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health."
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"More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution."
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-Albert Einstein
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
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"A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
-Sylvia Plath
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