"The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence."

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Source : "Venus Invisible and Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("Tadmore"), 1928.

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“I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.”
“As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 22, 2013
“In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.”
“Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.”
“As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.”
“In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.”

Source : "Carriers in Combat: The Air War at Sea" by Chester G. Hearn, (p. 43), 2007.
“I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.”

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