"Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday."

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Source : William Muir (1818). “Poems on Various Subjects”, p.91

William Muir

#Sweet Quotes #Flower Quotes #Wings Quotes

“And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
“Every human longs for peace and love.”
“From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this... The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be.”

Source : "Iran military manoeuvres heighten Middle East tensions". www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2012.
“I always think of it like this: Rather than be the sun to someone and light up everything around them, I want to be the moon and light the way just a little in front of them when they are lost or uncertain in the darkness, and always be there with them when they look up. Thatâ€™s my way of living.”
“Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.”
“I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.”
“I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!”

Source : "What Philosophers Think" by Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom, (p. 233), 2005.
“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”

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