"Follow ThroughÂ is elegant, sure footed, smartâ€”a nest of sticks that wonâ€™t stay sticksâ€”a nest of sticks that snowballsâ€”scary and marvelous."

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Lucy Corin

#Smart Quotes #Scary Quotes #Nests Quotes

“He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.”
“To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.”
“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.”
“In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.”
“So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.”
“All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.”
“Dare we let children grow up with no vital contact with the Saviour, never intentionally and consciously put into His arms? Not to bring them to Him, not to teach them to walk toward Him, as soon as they can walk toward anyone, is wronging a child beyond words. The terrible indictment uttered by the Lord, "Them that were entering in ye hindered," and the millstone warning for offending little ones, are close akin to the deserts of those who ruin a man's whole day of life by wronging his morning hours. Not to help a child to know the saving power of Christ is to hold back a man from salvation.”
“I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind â€¦.”

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