"The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss"

-- Langston Hughes

#Kissing Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Faces Quotes

“May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.”
“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
“I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.”
“I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.”
“I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.”
“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.”
“He blinked a few times, each motion so slow that he was never quite sure if heâ€™d get his eyes open again. He wasnâ€™t wearing a shirt. Funny how he was only just realizing it. Funnier still that he couldnâ€™t seem to summon any concern for her maidenly sensibilities. She might be blushing. He couldnâ€™t tell. It was too dark to see. But it didnâ€™t matter. This was Honoria. She was a good egg. A sensible egg. She wouldnâ€™t be scarred forever by the sight of his chest.”
“The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.”

Source : Catharine Esther Beecher, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (1860). “An appeal to the people in behalf of their rights as authorized interpreters of the Bible”, p.235

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