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"Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done..."-- Matthew Arnold

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655

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'These rough notes....' - Robert Falcon Scott

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'Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.' (Robert Falcon Scott)

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"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." (Samuel Johnson)

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“Unto this wood I came As to a nest; Dreaming that sylvan peace Offered the harrowed ease- Nature a soft release From men's unrest” (Thomas Hardy)

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'This hill, though high, I covet to ascend.......'

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“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” (George Kneller)

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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. (Havelock Ellis)

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'There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...

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'Wan February with weeping cheer....

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Bad weather always looks worse through a window. ~Tom Lehrer

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