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“Always end the day with a positive thought. No matter how hard things were, tomorrow is a fresh opportunity to make it better.”
― The Hallmarked Man
― The Hallmarked Man
“Oh foolishest fond folly of a heart
Divided, neither here nor there at rest!
That hankers after Heaven, but clings to earth
That neither here nor there knows thorough mirth,
Half-choosing, wholly missing, the good part: —
Oh fool among the foolish, in thy quest.
~ Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets”
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Divided, neither here nor there at rest!
That hankers after Heaven, but clings to earth
That neither here nor there knows thorough mirth,
Half-choosing, wholly missing, the good part: —
Oh fool among the foolish, in thy quest.
~ Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets”
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“Flowers are always beautiful, but there is something unmatched about spring flowers—an awakening, a renewal that fills the air with surreal harmonies of love and joy.”
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“To be a proper man meant to be a strong man, an outdoors man, but also a man of principle. It meant lack of bombast, a repudiation of shallowness and a core of quiet self-belief. It meant being slow to anger, but firm in conviction. Polworth, like Strike, had had to take his male role models where he could find them, because neither had a father who qualified as ‘proper’, and both boys had found in Edward Nancarrow a man worthy of admiration and emulation, whose approval meant more than any school teacher’s star and whose rebukes spurred a desire to do better,”
― The Hallmarked Man
― The Hallmarked Man
“Gardens have the magic to heal. When one is grieving, nature’s smile is a tender place to be.”
― Love's Longing
― Love's Longing
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