"Yet dearer still that Irish hill than all the world beside; It's home, sweet home, where'er I roam, through lands and waterswide."

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Source : William Allingham (1865). “Fifty Modern Poems”, p.118

William Allingham

#Sweet Quotes #Home Quotes #Land Quotes

“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”
“A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.”
“Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?”
“If we have not changed, we have not learned”

Source : John G. Miller (2001). “QBQ!: The Question Behind the Question”
“Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.”

Source : 1949 The Labyrinth,'The Good Town'.
“The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.”

Source : "Literary and Historical Miscellanies" by George Bancroft, New York: Harper, (p. 430), 1855.
“Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.”
“Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.”

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