"How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!"

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Source : Orville Dewey (1841). “Discourses on Human Life”, p.158

Orville Dewey

#Heart Quotes #Dark Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.”
“The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.”
“There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.”

Source : "Collections of the New-York Historical Society" by I. Riley, 1821.
“I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.”
“Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.”
“The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.”
“The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.”

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