"True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat."

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Source : "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley (Aphorism No. 10), 1930.

F. H. Bradley

#Men Quotes #Silence Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“It starts with being unearthed. I like that word, unearthed, because we are being unearthed.”
“Itâ€™s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.”
“It's very difficult for people, because when you purify yourself with love you have to merge. Anything in the world is easier to merge than two egos.”
“It is the political task of the social scientist â€” as of any liberal educator â€” continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work â€” and, as an educator, in his life as well â€” this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.187, Oxford University Press
“I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.”
“When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.”
“His black eyes sliced into me, and the corners of his mouth tilted up. My heart fumbled a bit and in that pause, a feeling of gloomy darkness seemed to slide like a shadow over me. It vanished in an instant but I was still staring at him. His smile wasn't friendly. It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.”
“I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?”

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