"Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty."

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Source : Mark Akenside (1744). “The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three Books”, p.136

Mark Akenside

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“British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still visible. English men make an effort. Weâ€™ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.”
“All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.”

Source : Charles Brockden Brown (1987). “Somnambulism and other stories”, Peter Lang Publishing
“Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.”

Source : Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.116, Univ of California Press
“A healthy soul must do two things for us. First, it must put some fire in our veins, keep us energized, vibrant, living with zest and full of hope as we sense that life is, ultimately beautiful and worth living ... Second, a healthy soul has to keep us fixed together. It has to continually give us a sense of who we are, where we came from, where we are going, and what sense there is in all of this.”
“I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“I don't want to appeal to everybody. [After all] everybody doesn't appeal to me.”
“I don’t want money. What the hell’s money good for? You can’t drive it and you can’t eat it and it won’t even fix a flat.”
“You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver.”

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