"Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor"

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Source : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

Minnie Maddern Fiske

#Night Quotes #Generosity Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.”
“Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are "stuck" and can go no further.”
“I may not have hands to hold my wifeâ€™s hands, but I donâ€™t need hands to hold her heart. Thatâ€™s what Iâ€™m gonna hold”
“Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.”

Source : Robert Southey, I. M. (1831). “Selections from the Poems of Robert Southey: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons”, p.282
“Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.”
“Over the years, Iâ€™ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.”
“Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.”

Source : Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1919). “The Compensations of Librarianship”

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