"By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains."

-- Erasmus Darwin

#Nature Quotes #Pain Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.”
“No friendship is an accident.”

Source : O. Henry (2015). “Heart of the West”, p.21, Booklassic
“I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.”
“Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romneys is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.”
“Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state.”
“We must be still before God.”
“How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.”
“Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.”

Source : Jean-Michel Basquiat, Civico museo Revoltella (1999). “Basquiat”, Walker Art Center

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