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"One day Aunt Martha, when she came to bring eggs for the store, brought also The Cuckoo Clock and said Nancy might keep it for a week....

"'But something worse was ailin' my heart, only Doc didn't know about that: it was starvin' to death. The Cove didn't have no...

"Later in the evening when the moon had come up, Aunt Martha opened the door that looked down toward the orchard. "'Nancy,' she said,...

"The world's spiritual geniuses seem to discover universally that the mind's muddy river, this ceaseless flow of trivia and trash, cannot...

"Dick and Dolly did not write, but were encouraged to observe the habits of animals and insects, and report what they saw. Dick liked...

"Her hands folded in her lap, Miss Montague closed her eyes; she was very tired. [...] "How much more friendly it is when you cannot see,...

(Dag and Fawn are puzzling out Dag's growing healing powers.) "'Imagine ... imagine your muscles all full of knots, pulled and sore and...

"We might remember that in 1880 certain men knew that flying-machines could be equipped and rendered safe; but few would listen to them...

"If you want to be an artist of any sort ... then handling your frustration is a fundamental aspect of the work -- perhaps the single...

(Thirteen-year-old Matey Gilbert has just heard Beethoven's Fifth at a symphony orchestra concert for the first time, after learning it...

“She felt great elation, a lonely joy that seemed to make her a part of the quiet world around her. Tears were close to her eyes and...

"The next afternoon, as soon as my last pupil had gone for the day I started for Miss Alice's cabin. She was at home and showed no...

"Stripe's hankering for the climbing life worsened. The pillar haunted him. He crawled there regularly, looking up and wondering. "But...

"The Dean sat down for a moment on the seat in the lime walk where Isaac had sat, his head bent, too tired to be much aware of the beauty...

"One stormy night when Roger was about twenty months old I wrapped him in a blanket and carried him down to the beach in the rainy...

"During one dinner, Alan mentioned the men who feel that it is not God who is dead, as some theologians were then saying, but language...

“Creative Living, Defined “So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to...

"Alas, the history of all religion seems to be about the same, that a founder with a beautiful and mystic grasp on reality, tries to tell...

"Susan Sowerby went round the garden and was told the whole story of it and shown every bush and tree which had come alive. Colin walked...

"The room was becoming gloriously warm, and already the scent of coffee was creeping in, and the delicious smell of something frying. ...