Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

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