Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.
Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.
A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.
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