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Some people swallow the universe like a pill, they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle [Samoa]... Give us courage, gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not be, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.

Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958 There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.

The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple-tart.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.