"I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I am remembering,Always in vain. I cannot like the scent,Yet I would rather give up others more sweet,With no meaning, than this bitter one."

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Source : Edward Thomas (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Edward Thomas (Illustrated)”, p.21, Delphi Classics

Edward Thomas

#Sweet Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I'm an old school guy and love the guys in the monster suits and JAWS; even though everyone makes fun of the shark I think it's awesome. You know it's fake, but with my generation that was part of the charm.”

Source : "Interview with 'Beneath' director Larry Fessenden". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 25, 2014.
“I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.”
“The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.”
“I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing!”
“I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.”

Source : "Katherine Heigl admits she has image problem" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 8, 2010.
“Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.”
“To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.”

Source : Carter Heyward (2010). “The Redemption of God: A Theology of Mutual Relation”, p.225, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.”

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