"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"

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Emily Dickinson

#Summer Quotes #Nature Quotes #Tree Quotes

“The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.”
“There's a time for all things.”
“The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.”
“If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.”

Source : Sarah Fielding (1986). “The cry (1754)”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint
“One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.”
“And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.”
“Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.”
“Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.”

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