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There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let's be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth...

This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off...

Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and what do we find at the other end? A miser! If we overdo the using...

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

She thought to herself, This is now. She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can...

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?They are the days of a long time ago, Laura, Pa said. Go to sleep, now.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that...

There's no great loss without some small gain.

Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give...

His son had joined the sleepers.

Thrall is no assassin skulking in the fog nor is he an honorless warrior!

never forget it. Small wonder that Xavius had accomplished so much; an even greater darkness worked through him. But Malfurion still kept his wits about him, aware that to lose all hope was to lose

To dream, to imagine, for in that is the best hope of rebuilding, of recovering, of growing...

Neltharion the Earth-Warder.

Those who do not see the truth in battle march willingly to defeat, grunted

Narrow, yellow eyes with no visible pupils sparkled with merriment, but the sort of merriment that came from pulling the wings off flies or the arms off experimental subjects.

I already have. Not at all that far from where we were, but far enough away. Actually, we're both fortunate and unfortunate.

*You are not yet in the Emerald Dream. First, you must remove your earthly shell...* the voice in his head instructed. *As you reach the state of sleep, you will slip your body off as you would a...

It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.

One makes their own luck, good or ill... and there are no guesses, merely faulty concentration.

Those who do not see the truth in battle march willingly to defeat.

I am a knight of Solamnia. I am the hand of Paladine, of Kiri-Jolith and of Habbakuk on this world. You are on Krynn. You are mine, Queen of Darkness.

It is as if we are trapped in a never-ending game, our lives hinging on the roll of a dice or the turn of a card.

Last week, we made a decision. We were going to go out to clear the bricks. Women in our neighborhood worked there daily. The Trümmerfrauen. They cleaned the bricks of all traces of cement. They...

as isolated and alone as if I'd been abandoned on the Patagonian ice cap and left to fend for myself.

Killed so tragically in a plane crash, in a plane he was flying himself; David Amory, her grandfather, who was aboard that plane