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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Gratitude Happiness Laughter

Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

Needs Two Years

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

Attitude Rare Moments Self Esteem

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

Country Integrity Self

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

Character Drama Greatness

Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.

Long Nature Science

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

Made Population Technology

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

Loneliness Oneself Solitude

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Ignorance Inspirational Mother

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.

Long Ago Spring Winter

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Art Confidence Math

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Environmental Nature People

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

Appreciate Firsts Mind

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Atheism Can Do Finance

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Cooking Joy Nature

Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.

Hiking Journey Men

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

Animal Forget Men

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Animal Cat Personality

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

Animal Humanity Men

Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

Gratitude Kind Vices