"Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust."

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Source : William Batchelder Greene (1871). “Imogen: And Other Poems”, p.65

William Batchelder Greene

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“I frowned, wondering if Trent would mind being the size of a fairy for a day. He could talk to the newest tenants in his garden.”
“The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned.”
“Its a way for you to support the children by sending pencils, beanie babies or soccer balls. That all started because of one of those convoys I was on.”
“Australia is a very healthy country which goes along with the fact that it's very high on the Human Development Index, high wealth, good levels of education. So Australia ranks right up there, second or third on the Human Development Index. And Indigenous Australians, if you treated them as if they were a separate country, would rank probably about 100th or below 100.”
“All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.”
“To lead men, you have to lead them with affection.”
“The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.”
“Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

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