“ Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act — act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home. ”
- Carl Burns- Copy
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“ I suffered terribly from heat and mosquitoes as the river sank with the increasing dryness of the season, although I made an awning of the sails to work under, and slept at night in the open air with my hammock slung between the masts. But there was no rest in any part; the canoe descended deeper and deeper into the gulley through which the river flows between high clayey banks; as the water subsided, and with the glowing sun overhead we felt at midday as if in a furnace. ”
- Henry Walter Bates- Copy
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