"The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra."

-- Horace Walpole

#New York Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Boston Quotes

“To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.”
“Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.”
“What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.”

Source : Peter Deunov (2010). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.121, Health Communications, Inc.
“As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump on the personal essay bus or linger back at the station, hoping that some other heretofore unknown mode of transportation was going to magically show up to take me where I wanted to go.”
“The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.”
“I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.”
“I've never met a successful pessimist.”
“In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.”

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