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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. Washington Irving

Soul, Scenery, Noble, Serene, Delights

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. Anais Nin

Morning, Coffee, Bird, Fire, Sun, Joy

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted. Abraham Lincoln

Character, Great, Government, End, Will

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. Otto von Bismarck

Great, War, Day, Decisions, Questions

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. Harry S Truman

Teacher, Today, World, Believe, Problem

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword. Andrew Jackson

Grow, Battle, Now, Sword, Will, Line

The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting. Ingrid Betancourt

Forgiveness, Mind, Forgive, Want, Only

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Maureen Dowd

You, Deserve, Settle, Minute, Even, Than

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. George Carlin

Alone, Universe, True, Say, Low, Little

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact. Barack Obama

Change, Choices, Energy, Tough, Debate

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. Bill Watterson

Life, World, Reality, Logic, Place, Want

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper. John Oliver

Place, Australia, Old, Places, Like, Out

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. Andrew Jackson

Power, Government, Practice, President

The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination. Vince Lombardi

Determination, Purpose, Strong, Men

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe. Michelle Obama

Honesty, Job, Universe, Transition, Know

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. Patanjali

Nature, Silence, Mind, Consciousness

My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog. Kate Christensen

Life, Love, Age, Myself, Happy, Old Age

The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking offence; and if we had so acted, and exercised proper skill in the management of our affairs, Mexico and ourselves would, by this time, have quietly and peaceably settled all difficulties and been good friends. John C. Calhoun

Good, Time, Strong, Management, Friends

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California. Joan Didion

People, Leaving, California, Behind, Up

In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj. Robyn Davidson

Life, Past, Religion, Walking, Think

I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks and chaos. It is a blissful boring life, believe me. Dax Shepard

Life, Love, Good, Chaos, Me, Good Times

The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin. Ellen G. White

Life, Hope, God, Soul, More, Will

Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes to film, because there's so many technicalities. So if I'm in my head, I've gotten settled on something, I'm gonna have to change it if I get there and something was set that's completely different. Sebastian Stan

Change, You, Want, Too Much, Feel, Film

Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems. Eliezer Yudkowsky

Beauty, Science, Step, Candle, Problems

Sicily is a blessed land. First, because of its geographic position in the Mediterranean. Second, for its history and all the different peoples who have settled there: Arabs, Greeks, Normans, the Swedes. That has made us different from others. We exaggerate, we overdo. We love Greek tragedy. We cry, we fight, sometimes for nothing. Marcello Giordani

Love, History, Blessed, Fight, Cry

While acting in 'W,' my worries about the way I act settled down. I also discovered another side of myself. It was a turning point. Lee Jong-suk

Myself, Acting, Down, Way, Point, Side

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