"Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Humility Quotes #Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.”
“While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating.”
“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.”

Source : The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
“Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.”
“At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the individual is the most important facet in society but unless every individual is the recipient of free health care, free education decent affordable housing and a proper pension then only the rich and powerful will be individuals and the rest of us will be exploited by them.”
“Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.”

Source : Ivan Goncharov (2006). “Oblomov: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Men are but children of a larger growth.”
“You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.”

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