"The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth."

-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Sunset Quotes #Dawn Quotes #Acres Quotes

“Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.”
“It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.”
“The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately UNDERSTOOD by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are 'familiar.”
“In the name of a race you cannot find any dignity in the contemptability of your race.”
“I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.”
“When a city is inundated with water, the water will move in all of the streets. Every pathway that has been made will be used. It doesnâ€™t matter the reason of its making.”
“For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous.”
“It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.”

Source : "De Luce Seu De Inchoatione Formarum ('Light or the Beginnings of the Forms')". Treatise by Robert Grosseteste, 1220.

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