"Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.”

Source : Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.”
“Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should not involve themselves in politics. It simply means that as we do so we must not let the rules of power displace the command to love.”
“In business it's about people. It's about relationships.”
“Life hardly ever lives up to our anxieties.”
“They told me I would find it difficult to find work because of the way that I look and they weren't wrong. [laughs] I thought, "Well, I'll prove you wrong" because I genuinely believed that the world was a more diverse place than they perhaps viewed it to be.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.”

Source : Kathi Appelt (2013). “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp”, p.202, Simon and Schuster
“Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.”

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