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Our forces begin to fail us; let us call them in and concentrate them in and for ourselves.
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The supply of time, though gloriously regular, is cruelly restricted.
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The phantom of the next day, with the dreary five to follow, sate as a load upon my poor Sabbath recreations.
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This trial comes at a moment when man's power to achieve good or to inflict evil surpasses the brightest hopes and the sharpest fears of all ages.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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This has become more difficult in a world where change and growth seem to tower beyond the control and even the judgment of men.
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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change
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Difficult and embarrassing questions meet us at the threshold of this subject.
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war takes away the easy supply of daily wants, and so proves a rough master, that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes
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There is no instant step from disorder to order.
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On this bit of the wild world's stage are theatrical lightning changes of scenes—changes that on most mountains would require ten thousand years or more. It is a place of strange and fleeting landscapes; the earth is ever changing like the sky.