True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.

John Hay
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  1. In a society so estranged from animals as ours, we often fail to credit them with any form of language. If we do, it comes under the heading of communication rather than speech. And yet, the great silence we have imposed on the rest of...

  2. This beach I voyage on leads me through the earth's immortal consistencies. Each form I encounter obeys the principles of perfection and trial, a timelessness in the making. The proportions of truth are at hand. Existence is celebrated in a splinter of driftwood, worn by...

  3. And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are those lives, threading the air and waters of the sea, that come out of an incomparable darkness, which is also my own.

  4. I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

  5. True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.

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