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Mary Austin Quotes (displaying: 1 - 10 of 15 quotes)

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
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I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
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For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.
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No man can be stronger than his destiny.
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To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.
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Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.
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Death by starvation is slow.
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Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
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We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
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People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
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