"An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end."

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Source : William Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Dorothy Wordsworth, Shaver, Chester L (1988). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth”, Clarendon Press

Dorothy Wordsworth

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“They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.”
“Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry, The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I.”
“We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true. We also live at a moment of deep ignorance, when vital knowledge that humans have always possessed about who we are and where we live seems beyond our reach. An Unenlightenment. An age of missing information,”
“While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.”
“I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.”
“Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.”
“True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.”

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