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“The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.”

World Song Fall Water Share Bird Luxury Chiefs Hills Retirement Echoes Boast Glare

Author:William Cowper

“The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.”

Wells Action Energy Water Consciousness Duty Victory Comfort Determination Trials Luxury Accomplished Midst Magnificent Calmness Repose Tempest Felicity

Book:Modern Painters

Source: Modern Painters

“If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.”

Ifs Water Poor Rich Wine Sticks Luxury Indulgence Abstinence

Book:Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile

Source: Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile

“To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.”

Source: Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination