I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched.
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Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
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It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.
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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain freemargin, and even vagueness ignorance, credulity helps your enjoyment of these things.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation.
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To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.
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The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.
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How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars?all the beauties of creation.
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If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
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Charm the birds out of trees
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I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. But I know that secretly, they're watching my every move and plotting to beat me over the head with a large steel pipe and take my shoe.
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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
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Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies
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Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?
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Shiva.. Is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; <br/>The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things.<br/>Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme,<br/>Empty darkness under the death-tent wings.<br/>She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood,<br/>Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.
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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
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My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow
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Fine feathers make fine birds
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Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work.
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No man knows when his hour will come; As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them
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How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
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