"Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death."

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Source : 'Gotham' (1764) bk. 1, l. 215

Charles Churchill

#Children Quotes #Pain Quotes #Evil Quotes

“Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.”
“I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.”
“I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.”
“God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.”
“Together, we can put the brakes on breast cancer...”
“You know, the finest line a man will walk is between success at work and success at home.”
“We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.”
“You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon's light that you felt and remember." Gwynneth paused. "It is the value, the quality that lives on.”

Source : Kathryn Lasky (2011). “Wolves of the Beyond”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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