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The old woman, Marguerite, who had given her lessons in poverty, was a pious woman, a person of genuine devotion, poor and charitable to the poor, and even to the rich, knowing how to write just enough to sign Margeritte, and believing in God, which is knowledge.
Victor Hugo • Les Miserables (Les Misérables)
fair land—let's call it 'Feminisia,'"
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
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Sara Teasdale • There Will Come Soft Rains
"But they look—why, this is a CIVILIZED country!" I protested. "There must be men."
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
“Nature is merciful,” he later wrote in a newspaper article about the experience, “and does not try her children, man or beast, beyond their compass. It is only where the cruelty of man intervenes that hellish torments appear. For the rest—live dangerously; take things as they come; dread naught, all will be well.”
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Every summer the lilies rise and open their white hands until they almost cover the black waters of the pond. And I give thanks but it does not seem like adequate thanks, it doesn’t seem festive enough or constant enough, nor does the name of the Lord or the words of thanksgiving come into it often enough. Everywhere I go I am treated like royalty,