"The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives."

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Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.37

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#Eye Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.”
“Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us with diabolical feelings to himself. It is he who wins when his own methods are used against himself...A continual denunciation of evil and its agents merely encourages its growth in the world a truth sufficiently revealed in the Gospels, but to which we are persistently blind.”
“I do love the feeling of a big win. But you don't have to have a World Series ring to be a winner. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. Being able to get the most from their ability. That's what characterizes a winner.”
“As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.”
“I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways ...”

Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.592, Atlantic Monthly Press
“The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.”
“If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and why the bird is trapped. Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape.”
“I like messing up the song, doing some improvisation. And I like running around the room with the mic.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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