"As in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear."

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Source : "The Burning Babe" l. 1 (ca. 1590)

Robert Southwell

#Heart Quotes #Eye Quotes #Winter Quotes

“Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "The Proof", episode of "NOVA", www.pbs.org. November 01, 2000.
“There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.”
“Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.”

Source : "There Be Dragons Review, and Interview With Wes Bentley". Interview with Richard Karpala, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.
“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”
“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them.”
“It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.”
“I love to write and have the basic foundation of what the song's all about. Then once the drums are done it's time for fun for me, because I don't know what I'm going to sing yet, and melody-wise I don't even have my lyrics written.”
“Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.”

Source : Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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