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Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed ", and I think he was right.
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And so with us, she thought. We come, we go, and, as individuals, we are forgotten. But the stream of human life goes on, ever changing, but ever the same, and as the stream is fed by well-springs hoarded by Nature so the stream of humanity is fed by the store of accumulated wisdom and effort and hard-won experience of past generations.
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Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.
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Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.
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A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.
Dawn Powell
Flora Thompson
Born:
December 5, 1876
Died:
May 21, 1947
(aged 70)
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