"But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at dock or plover Bear wide, and kick their owners over."

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Source : John Trumbull, “M'Fingal - Canto I”

John Trumbull

#Missing Quotes #Docks Quotes #Bears Quotes

“Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.”
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
“I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.”
“How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light”
“You feel the communion of the collective consciousness in that moment when you're on stage doing something and the audience is absolutely with you. And the audience becomes a collective entity as well. They come in from separate places and socio-economic backgrounds, and places across the world and days that they've had, and then they come together and they become one collective thing, and experience something in a collective way.”

Source : Source: www.achievement.org
“Raven?' Yes?' What do you believe in?' I believe in - finding out!”
“It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1875). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.88
“There's a fire starting in my heart”

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