"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship."
-Norman Douglas
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"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.“
-Norman Douglas
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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."
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"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."
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