"Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours."

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Source : Mary Howitt (1855). “Birds and flowers and other country things [in verse].”, p.11

Mary Howitt

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“Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.”
“Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.462, Pan Macmillan
“I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield's "Tubular Bells" [Virgin Records' first release] sold 8 or 10 million copies, I suppose, at age 19, I could've possibly retired on the money. Instead, I immediately pushed the boat and took that risk again.”
“I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.”
“I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.”
“The road to the sacred leads through the secular.”
“I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.”
“I suppose the situation varies from field to field. If you're a mathematician, your proficiency in English may not be such a problem. If you're in the humanities or social sciences, there is no doubt that it is a handicap for you.”

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