:Celery~Treats:

But what if I fail of my purpose here? (clix)

It is but to keep the nerves at strain, (clix?)

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To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
and baffled__ get up and begin again.
~Robert Browning~

Honey Bee's Back

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from: Tennyson's Ulysses,

(I am a part of all that I have met; ~ Milton~)
Yet all experience is an arch__
Wherethro’ gleams that untravell’d world,
Whose margin fades for ever__
And forever when I move.

Hollyhock Treed

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"Action seems to follow feeling,
but really action and feeling go together;
and by regulating our action___
(which is under the more direct control of our will)
we can indirectly regulate our feeling... which is not."

~once again by: William James & RWE's Godson~
note: As a beekeeper's action to their bee's last fatal sting.

Velveteen b'Lush

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"A great many people think they are thinking...

when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
also said William James.

Many Bugs of Progeny

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"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link...
and life is after all__ a chain." ~William James~ 1842-1910.

Offspring previous pix... I think? :)
Stink beetle link~and~Crab spider link

Smearcase Pie

__Emerson said:

"Life is eating us up.
We all shall be fables presently !
Keep cool: it will be all one... a hundred years hence."

Crazy | Lipstick~Daisy

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-- R. Waldo Emerson--

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"Gratitude bestows reverence__,
allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies,
those transcendent moments of awe that change forever...
how we experience life and the world." ~Milton 1608-1674~

Tainted Snowball's Joy

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Beauty is nature's brag: and must be shown...
in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities,
where most may wonder at the workmanship.
~John Milton~

Sugar&blueyed.bfly

Shakespeare said of conversation:

Pleasant without scurrility__

........Witty without affectations__

.......Free without indecency__

........Learned without conceitedness__

.....Novel without falsehoods.

Balloons.Flowers.Pops

"I am certain of nothing___
but the holiness of the heart's affections
and the truth of imagination." by John Keats

Sweet Little Sweet-feet

"Is not marriage an open question:
when it is alleged (from the beginning of the world)
that such as are in the institution wish to get out,
and such as are out... wish to get in?"
-- and Emerson did quick remarry. --

Hydrangea Tree's Materdees

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." --R. W. Emerson--
note: Color banding is much like our bar code id system_
an exact match means just that for bees.

Albino de Telephoto

Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
In a cowslip’s bell I lie.
The Tempest. ACT V Scene 1.