"Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace."

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Source : 'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

Alfred the Great

#New Year Quotes #War Quotes #Pride Quotes

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.46, Vintage
“As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.”
“All of us have special ones who have loved us into being”
“Each one writes history according to his convenience.”
“The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.”
“He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.”
“No team works out teamwork.”
“Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the rÃ©sumÃ© race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.”

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