"A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom."

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Henry David Thoreau

#Wisdom Quotes #Gold Quotes #Surface Quotes

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
“There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.”
“I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.”
“Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.”
“you can have one of mine," he says. "i'll yank one out right now." no, that won't count. It has to be the lash that naturally falls out. " He gets on his knees and starts looking for my lash.”
“Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform..”
“Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.”

Source : Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.93, Crown Business

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