"Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die."

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Source : Henry Kirke White (1834). “The Life and Remains of Henry Kirke White, Etc”, p.95

Henry Kirke White

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“Tears are perhaps 1% water but 99% emotions. They contain hurt, pain, sorrow, disappointment, sadnessâ€¦ so cry sometimes and let go of the feelings welling in your heart. Crying won't necessarily solve your problems but it will make you feel better.”
“You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.”

Source : Song: Infrared Roses
“When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.”
“How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?”

Source : "The Strange Necessity" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, (part 1), 1969.
“These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you can imagine that-art for fun.”
“Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.”
“When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.”
“The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.”

Source : Adrian Mitchell (1997). “Heart on the Left: Poems, 1953-1984”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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