"Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride."

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Johann Kaspar Lavater

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“...Something about, 'I love my dad, I love my dad, makes me feel better when I'm sad ... I love you to the moon and back.”
“Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.”

Source : "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("Pissaro: Kitchen Garden, Trees in Bloom", p. 41), 1981.
“But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?”
“The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.”
“Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord”
“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.”
“It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.”
“He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.”

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