"A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails."

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William Cowper

#Illustration Quotes #Your Side Quotes #Giving Quotes

“People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting”
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
“From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.”
“Your decision to walk creates the path ahead”
“If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.”
“Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.”

Source : Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.133, University of Georgia Press
“Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.”

Source : Josef Pieper (2015). “Leisure: The Basis of Culture”, p.27, Ignatius Press
“The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has exerted so deep an influence, that it may be truly said that the simple record of three years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.”

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