Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; … - Martin Farquhar Tupper

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So herein lies the choice for those of us who are Christians. We can either stay within the Christianity we have mastered with the Jesus we have domesticated, or we can leave Christianity as a destination, embrace Christianity as a way of life, and then journey to reality, where God is present and living in every person, every human community, and all creation.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.

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Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.

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Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

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