"For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude."

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Source : John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.982, Delphi Classics

John Clare

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“The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.”
“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
“Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.”
“The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'”
“Even then, more than a year earlier, there were neurons in her head, not far from her ears, that were being strangled to death, too quietly for her to hear them. Some would argue that things were going so insiduously wrong that the neurons themselves initiated events that would lead to their own destruction. Whether it was molecular murder or cellular suicide, they were unable to warn her of what was happening before they died.”

Source : Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.”
“Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.”

Source : Francis Thackeray, William Pitt (1827). “A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)”, p.285
“Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.”

Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 15: "Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science", p. 277, 1991.

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