"Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state..."

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Source : Mary Martha Sherwood (1837). “The history of Henry Milner”, p.21

Mary Martha Sherwood

#Simple Quotes #Mind Quotes #Habit Quotes

“Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.”
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.”
“What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.”
“I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.”
“The only thing I'm afraid of is a life without you, Pigeon.”

Source : Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster”, p.239, Simon and Schuster
“Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.”

Source : Source: blog.yupnet.org
“They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?”
“The best rescues of all leave a family in a better place.”

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