"They say the sky is the same..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.
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“To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.”
“In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.”
“war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.”
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“I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.”
“nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.”
“These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.”
More on Nature
“And wisdom is a butterflyAnd not a gloomy bird of prey.”
“The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.”
“Tis often seenAdoption strives with nature; and choice breedsA native slip to us from foreign lands.”