"Pray on, dear one- the power lies that way"

-- Mary Slessor

#Lying Quotes #Way Quotes #Praying Quotes

“The artist should always be the student.”
“Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn't always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep.”
“The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.”
“The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.”
“I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.”
“I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.”
“Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?”
“Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.”

Source : Charles Churchill (1892). “The Poetical Works of Charles, Churchill”

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