"...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper."

-- Elizabeth Goudge

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“The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.”
“Sometimes when weâ€™re in situations where we feel weâ€™re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.”
“Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law; and, when that is discerned, it is the duty of the Court to follow it. Judicial power is never exericised for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Judge; always for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Legislature; or, in other words, to the will of the law.”

Source : Osborn v. Bank of the United States, 22 U.S. (9 Wheaton) 738, 866, 1824.
“Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”
“If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.”
“The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.”
“Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.”

Source : Uses of the Past ch. 8 (1957)
“I think talent is like a water table under the earthâ€”you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.”

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