"Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air."

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Source : Jane Austen, Bharat Tandon (2012). “Emma: An Annotated Edition”, p.322, Harvard University Press

Thomas Gray

#Ocean Quotes #Flower Quotes #Dark Quotes

“A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.”

Source : James Gould Cozzens, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1978). “Just representations: a James Gould Cozzens reader”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
“We think about strategies in pop songs to make people listen to them and be like, "What the hell was that?" But then they have to listen to it again.”
“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.”
“Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.”
“One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.”
“Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.”

Source : Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.469, Ravenio Books
“But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog.”
“During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.”

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