"The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,And void the places where the minstrels stood,Differs in nought from what hath been before,And is nor ill nor good."

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Source : William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”

William Watson

#Silence Quotes #Void Quotes #Minstrels Quotes

“It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.”
“Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.”
“I see a lot of people use the Paleo diet as an excuse to eat bacon for every meal. That's a bit much.”
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.”
“The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.”
“I have visited TromsÃ¸ and can personally say TromsÃ¸ is a beautiful city, well equipped to be an excellent choice for the Chess Olympiad 2014.”
“For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.”

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