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Off-Beat Spark is the first volume of poetry by Marple based poet David Hardy. A relative newcomer to the Greater Manchester poetry scene, David takes us with him on a magical mystery tour through his own off-beat perspective on the human condition,
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“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― 1984
― 1984
“It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.”
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“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
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“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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