"To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame."

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Source : John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.63, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

John Armstrong

#Moving Quotes #Mind Quotes #Delight Quotes

“A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (2009). “The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction”, p.338, Macmillan
“I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs.”
“We don't always possess faith in the sense of having a clear embodiment of something to hang on to. The relationship between the intellect and faith is a very curious one. Sometimes the intellect can point us to faith, sometimes the intellect can stand in the way of faith. Sometimes, as St John of the Cross points out, we have to darken or blind the intellect in order to have faith.”
“I can't say if I have influenced anything really, maybe a few artists but at the end of the day we are all influenced by various arts and situations around us, etc... all of us. I don't see or hear from any of the above, sorry.”
“The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.”
“If political correctness has achieved one thing, itâ€™s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language”
“When people believe in you, you can do miraculous things.”

Source : "Strays - Vin Diesel interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.”

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