"Whistling aloud to bear his courage up."

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Source : Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, Beilby Porteus (1818). “The grave,: a poem,”, p.13

Robert Blair

#Courage Quotes #Bears Quotes #Whistling Quotes

“My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.”
“The right answer is seldom as important as the right question.”
“I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong.”
“An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.”
“I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.”
“It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.”
“Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember. ... By the time they learn to speak they have forgotten the details of their complaints, and so we never know. They forget so quickly, we say, because we cannot contemplate the fact that they never forget.”

Source : The Millstone (1965)
“When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."”

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