The Keeper of The Bees
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The reason a great adventure is an adventure is because the things that happen are so very simple and so very natural. Why it is great is merely because one has not expected it, not because it could not very well have been expected had ones wits been working.
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He was hearing singing water. He was hearing water that was rushing and falling and spilling and laughing and doing all the heartening things that water knows how to do when it is left to follow a rocky bed down a canyon.
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He was thinking about almost anything, except himself, and that was one of the best things that had happened to him in two long years.
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“At any rate,” said Jamie, “It will be more interesting to put in time planning a fight to live than to spend months moping around figuring on how soon I am going to die.
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In fact, I have a feeling that the damaging things of this world are going to go past a mind that is fully occupied with something legitimate and constructive.
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I am not sure but salt water and sunshine and clean air are not the best doctors in all the world, anyway.”
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It is in the blood of humanity to fight for life. Anything but death. Jamie sat on the side of the bed and meditated upon how strange it was that human beings should complain of pain, of poverty, of disappointment, of defeat of every kind, and yet the instant death, death that the little Scout said was beautiful, became imminent, humanity armed against it and fought to the last ditch, as he was fighting.
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and it might well be that half the battle lay in having him merely believe that he was better.
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It seemed to Jamie in that hour that the men who had gone abroad had done nothing nobler, nothing braver, nothing more worth while than this girl was doing, this girl who was getting her fingers on the very pulse of the situation, who was preparing these children to carry to their homes the seeds that might flourish and grow into mighty trees.
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And it is the most pitiful of laws that no man or woman can take their punishment alone in this world. It is the law that none of us can suffer without making someone else suffer, but in some way it must be that everything works out for the best, even if we can’t possibly see how that could be when things are happening that hurt us so.