"Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale."

-- John Milton

#Echoes Quotes #Nymphs Quotes #Unseen Quotes

“Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.”

Source : "Paul Ryan Mocks ‘War On Women’ At Private Fundraiser". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.
“I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton. And it's always one of the strange discomforts of the job, that you're in this very intense moment in someone's life - you're engaging with them nonstop - and then suddenly your piece is out and that's done. It always reminds me that the journalist's job isn't to be someone's friend, or their psychologist, or anything other than what we actually are. And at the end of the day, that can definitely seem like such a strange, extractive relationship.”
“Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been published, because it was read by scientist and non- scientist alike, and it aroused violent controversy. Religious people disliked it because it appeared to dispense with God; scientists liked it because it seemed to solve the most important problem in the universe-the existence of living matter. In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit in with it.”
“Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.”
“Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.”

Source : Nicholas Culpeper (1863). “The complete herbal; to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities ... to which are now first annexed, The English physician, enlarged, and Key to physic ... New edition ... Illustrated by engravings of numerous British herbs and plants, correctly coloured from nature”, p.201
“my dragon? save anybody? you must have have him confused with someone else- Smaug perhaps?...”
“The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts.”
“I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.”

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