"Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola."

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Source : Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.51, A&C Black

Francis Thompson

#Mother Quotes #Baby Quotes #Earth Quotes

“A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.”
“Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.”
“Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.”
“America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.”
“It seems to me that the Iraqis laid down a lot of the arms that we gave to them. So that doesn't seem to be the solution.”
“The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.”

Source : "The Art of Happiness". Book by Andre Maurois, 1971.
“To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.”
“The world isnt one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.”

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