Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

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For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work patience love self-s

For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Joy in the universe and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Joy in the universe and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

The spirit of man can endure only so much, and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

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    We have to handover the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us.

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    It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.

    When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

    When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

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