"The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And nation that they make sublime, He feels and sees that Nature knows Nothing of time in what she does, But has a leisure infinite Wherein to do her work aright."

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Source : Henry Abbey (1884). “The City of Success: And Other Poems”

Henry Abbey

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“Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.”
“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
“The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.”
“No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.”

Source : Sir John Robert Seeley (1871). “Ecce Homo: A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ”, p.14
“In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?”

Source : C. D. Innes (1993). “Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992”, p.3, Psychology Press
“One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.”
“I think Americans want to believe in this country again.”
“no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.”

Source : Ethel Smyth (1940). “What happened next”, Longmans, Green

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