"I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache."

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Source : 1650 Silex Scintillans, 'The Garland'.

Henry Vaughan

#Fire Quotes #Soul Quotes #Common Quotes

“An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.”
“Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.”
“Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.”
“Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.”
“Who knows better than a peasant farmer the agricultural conditions in his country or region? It is not always necessary to send an FAO expert to tell him what crops to grow or what seeds to use. Give him the seeds he asks for, and he will do the rest. Don't tell him how to renovate his irrigation system: give him the necessary equipment and he will do the job far better than us.”
“We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.”
“It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.”
“The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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