~ I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. ~  ~ I never, till now, had a friend who could give me repose; all have disturbed me, and, whether for pleasure or pain, it was still disturbance. But peace
overflows from your heart into mine ~ ~ Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you ~ ~ The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view ~ ~ What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests ~ ~ What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. ~ ~ I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean's voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it ~ ~ But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. ~ ~ Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy
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