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The clear cuckoo sings to me, lovely discourse, in its grey cloak from the crest of the bushes;
Truly - may the Lord protect me! - well do I write under the forest wood.
-Author unknown

I have a hut in a wood; only my Lord knows it; an ash tree closes it on one side and a hazel like a great tree by a rath on the other.
The size of my hut, small, not too small a homestead with familiar paths. From its gable a she-bird sings a sweet song in her thrush’s cloak.
A tree of apples of great bounty like a mansion, stout; a pretty bush, thick as a fist, of small hazel nuts, branching and green.
Fair white birds come, herons, seagulls, the sea sings to them, no mournful music; brown grouse from the russet heather.
The sound of the wind against a branching wood, grey cloud, riverfalls, the cry of swan, delightful music!
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Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.
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Seek knowledge, for learning is a good deed before God; to disclose it is praise, to seek it is worship,to teach it is charity.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so
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Seek knowledge, for learning is a good deed before God; to disclose it is praise, to seek it is worship,to teach it is charity.
-Author unknown

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
For want of the shoe, the horse was lost;
For want of the horse, the rider was lost,
For want of the rider, the battle was lost;
For want of the battle, the kingdom was lost;
And all from the want of a horseshoe nail.
-Author Unknown

Redeem the misspent time that’s past,
And live this day as ’twere thy last.
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O that I were where I would be!
Then should I be where I am not;
But where I am, there I must be,
And where I would be I can not.
Author Unknown

Slow me down, Lord! Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time. Give me, amidst the confusion of my day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break the tension of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of singing streams that live in my memory.
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Friendship is two souls in one body.
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I have learned to see in all men, even in those most criminal, even in those from whom I have most suffered, undeveloped brothers to whom I owed assistance, love and forgiveness.
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I have a silent sorrow here;
A grief I’ll ne’er impart;
It breathes no sigh, it sheds not tear,
But it consumes my heart.
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It is the height of folly to throw up attempting because you have failed. Failures are wonderful elements in developing the character.
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Deep the silence round us spreading
All through the night
Dark the path that we are treading
All through the night.
Still the coming day discerning,
By the hope within us burning,
To the dawn our footsteps turning,
All through the night.
-Author Unknown

When late I attempted your pity to move,
Why seem’d you so deaf to my prayer?
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But - why did you kick me down stairs?
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Altruism: the art of doing unselfish things for selfish reasons.
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It’s the same the whole world over,
It’s the poor wot gets the blame,
It’s the rich wot gets the gravy.
Ain’t it all a bleedin shame?
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Whosoever on the night of the nativity of the young Lord Jesus, in the great snows, shall fare forth bearing . . . a wisp of hay for the shivering horse, a cloak of raiment for the stranded wayfarer . . . a garland of bright red berries for one who has worn chains, a dish of crumbs with a song of love for all huddled birds who thought that song was dead . . . to him shall be proferred and returned gifts of such an astonishment as will rival the hues of heaven, so that though he live to the great age when man goes stooping . . . yet shall he walk upright and remembering, as one whose heart shines like a great star in his breast.
-Author Unknown

There is a lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind:
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.
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A God alone can comprehend A God.
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Prayer moves the hand that moves the Universe.
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Neither are the good good, nor the evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death . . . Thus one who hears the word ‘God’ does not perceive what is correct . . . So also with ‘life’ and ‘light’ and ‘resurrection’.
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Man cannot discover new oceans until he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde
Ha’e mercy o’ my soul, Lord God,
As I wad do, were I Lord God
And ye were Martin Elginbrodde.
-Author Unknown

Remember, o friend, your end.
Now you are strong and fit, filled with ambition, boasting of your achievements, but all your success is a mere passing shadow.
Remember you are made of clay, and to clay you will return.
Now you are healthy and handsome, filled with energy, proud of your work; but all your joys are mere passing shadows.
Remember your life is the breath of God, which at death will depart.
Now your life on earth is solid and stable, but soon it will dissolve, your body crumbling to dust.
Remember, o friend, your end.
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The verie essence, and, as it were, springe-heade and orgine of all musicke, is the very pleasaunte sounde which the trees of the forest do make when they growe.
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