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• The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Cities, Glasses

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.197

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• There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Passion, Heart

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.57, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Air, Water

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• In the heavens there is calmness
  and on the earth there is beauty.
  In the gardens there is freshness
  and in you there is a sign.
  In the sea there is might
  and in the air there is nourishment.
  Take from all this comfort for your soul
  and recovery for your mind.
  And do not waste your time by being unmindful,
  this will shield you from good
  and lead you to evil.

  Hassan al-Banna

  Wisdom, Islamic, Recovery

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• When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Vision, Patterns

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

  Alan Alda

  Ideas, Sometimes, Shelves

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• How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not feel it quarrelling with one's liver. No; 'tis rather a peace-maker, and lies as quiet as it did in the grape. Then it is as fragrant as the Queen Bee, and the more ethereal part mounts into the brain, not assaulting the cerebral apartments, like a bully looking for his trull, and hurrying from door to door, bouncing against the wainscott, but rather walks like Aladdin about his enchanted palace, so gently that you do not feel his step.

  John Keats

  Queens, Lying, Wine

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• Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current.

  Coleman Barks

  Inspirational, Moving, Rivers

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• How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are mingled in the common dust, may continue to cherish the principles and the practice of liberty in perpetual freshness and vigour.

  Joseph Story

  Children, Government, Dust

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.486

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• If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

  Alan Watts

  Friendship, Spring, Men

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• How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people, every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Horse, Memories

  "Flow: For Love of Water". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.

  Samuel Ullman

  Spring, Adventure, Mean

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.

  Kingsley Amis

  Fall, Loss, Thinking

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• The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Silly, Book

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• There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Listening, Firsts, Actors

  "Jennifer Lawrence Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, Her Tabloid “Feud” with Kristen Stewart, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achievement than almost any other work I can think of. Each of its regular routines brings satisfaction when it is completed. These routines echo the rhythm of life, and the housekeeping rhythm is the rhythm of the body. You get satisfaction not only from the sense of order, cleanliness, freshness, peace and plenty restored, but from the knowledge that you yourself and those you care about are going to enjoy these benefits.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Echoes

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• Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

  Paul Gauguin

  Firsts, Finishing, Details

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Each time we bring to routine activities an awareness of 'now,' we raise our vibratory frequency and cause the freshness of the moment to fall upon us.

  Michael Beckwith

  Fall, Routine, Causes

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• In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we  breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it. Then we breathe out, radiating compassion, lovingkindness, freshness - anything that encourages relaxation and openness.  So you're training in softening, rather than tightening, your heart. In this practice, it's not uncommon to find yourself blocked, because you come face to face with your own fear, resistance, or whatever your personal "stuckness" happens to be at that moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Compassion, Practice

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• How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.

  Robert Southey

  Beautiful, Night, Clouds

  Robert Southey (1829). “Poetical works”, p.89

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• Pope Francis has taught us by his example how we can witness with our lives and actions to our faith and moral principles, but still engage respectfully with those who disagree. He's urged us to find a "new balance," going beyond the few wedge issues of our politics, so we do not lose the "freshness and fragrance of the Gospel."

  John I. Jenkins

  Taught Us, Issues, Balance

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Morning, Children, Men

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• You don't have to get high or need drugs to experience the Juggalo freshness. But you do need to get high to experience the whole Phish freshness.

  Joseph Bruce

  Drug, Needs, Getting High

  "Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.

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• If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Art, Red, Faces

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• It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

  James Loeb

  Growing Up, Latin, Our Generation

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