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A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still, soft atmosphere of early autumn, when the gossamer falls in showers, coming straight down as if it were raining silk.

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An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart.

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That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

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Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Therefore, merely because after death the soul is not visible is no demonstration that it does not still live.

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To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.

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Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.

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It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

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I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.

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Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.

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The heart looks into space to be away from earth.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: November 6th, 1848

Died: August 14th, 1887

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