"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all."

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Source : John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.131, tredition

John Greenleaf Whittier

#Fall Quotes #Flower Quotes #Power Quotes

“In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.”
“None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.”
“Labor is getting more expensive and technology is getting cheaper.”
“A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.”
“Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.”
“I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.”
“The crowd...a cacophony of colour”
“Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' â€”Fletch”

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