‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.

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Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

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Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

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To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

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The sun shines upon good and bad alike.

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Where words fail, music speaks.

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The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

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But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

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Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

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