"A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain."

-- George Pope Morris

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“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”

Source : "The Holy State and the Profane State". Book by Thomas Fuller, Book III, 1642.
“I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen in a hurry.”
“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”
“I like men who paint or write or do something creative.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
“Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.”

Source : Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.68, Faber & Faber
“So the Dark did a simple thing. They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong thing--fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth--fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such great fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds.”

Source : Susan Cooper (2010). “Silver on the Tree”, p.163, Simon and Schuster
“There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the local residents, and the proof of that is the fact that those people have literally removed their masks.”

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