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"had to take this back to the library. I'll probably pick it up again later. So far there is an impressive mix of poems from a diverse group of authors on a wide variety of themes--that's probably the main reason it takes a long time to get through, I guess." — Apr 15, 2013 10:58AM
"had to take this back to the library. I'll probably pick it up again later. So far there is an impressive mix of poems from a diverse group of authors on a wide variety of themes--that's probably the main reason it takes a long time to get through, I guess." — Apr 15, 2013 10:58AM
“The point is—as far as the Society is concerned—if you are not honest, and determined, and brave, then it doesn’t matter how talented you are.”
― Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
― Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate... We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad flapping American ear will be that Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.”
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“You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.”
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“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”
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