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“We might do well to stay home a few days and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of the barn door and reflect upon the relentless and yet benevolent forces of Mother Nature. The laws of nature are relentless. They can never be disobeyed without exacting a penalty. Yet they are benevolent, for when they are understood and obeyed, nature yields up the abundance that blesses those who understand and obey.”

Wells Home Might Law Mother Force Nature Walks Doors Fields Understood Abundance Bless Yield Shelter Penalties Laws Of Nature Relentless Mother Nature Benevolent Barns

Author:Wheeler McMillen

“A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.”

May Moments Light Happens Behinds Doors Effects Pure Longing Accidents Weather Dust Relish Barns Windmills Trivial Things

Book:The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry

Source: The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry

“Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.”

Moments Doors Football Soccer Analysis Moments In Time Barns

Author:Steve Staunton

“It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.”

Use Gone Doors Horse Closing Barns

Author:John Heywood

“Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.”

Art Study Doors Color Painting Wings Sticks Tiny Butterfly Canvas Insects Pencils Combining Barns Butterfly Wings

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“The first slap-jack given me for dinner was a cake of flour, partially fried in a pan of fat bacon. I nibbled about the brown edges and threw it, unbaked, against a barn door, where it stuck for days.”

Firsts War Given Doors Edges Dinner Stuck Fats Civil War Brown Cake Slap Barns Flour

Author:James Smith