"Friends of my youth, a last adieu! Haply some day we meet again: Ye ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men."

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Source : "The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî". Poem by Richard Francis Burton, 1870.

Richard Francis Burton

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Years Quotes

“I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.”
“I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.”
“Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.”

Source : Czeslaw Milosz, “You Who Wronged”
“The Tower. He would come to the Dark Tower and there he would sing their names; there he would sing their names; there he would sing all their names. The sun stained the east a dusky rose, and at last Roland, no longer the last gunslinger but one of the last three, slept and dreamed his angry dreams through which there ran only that one soothing blue thread: There I will sing all their names!”
“It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.”
“You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.”
“Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.”

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