"The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.'"

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Source : 1612 The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts,'The Silver Swan'.

Orlando Gibbons

#Wise Quotes #Farewell Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Aug 03, 2012
“Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?”
“Climbing is what I do.”
“I'm part of an industry that everybody wants to be a part of. I do hang out with a lot of sort of powerful, interesting people like Bella Freud or Jay Joplin or Tracey Emin. I'm part of that group of people. Brit artists who are doing things. That's what I do. Some of them happen to be aristocrats.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.”
“The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.”

Source : Dorothy Richardson (1905). “The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl”, p.45, University of Virginia Press
“What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?”
“We don't stand here alone, it's possible through the great organisations that support us. The disclosures that Edward Snowden revealed aren't only a threat to privacy but to democracy, when the most important decisions made affect all of us. Thank you to Edward Snowden. I share this with Glenn Greenwald and other journalists who are exposing truth.”

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