"Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please."

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Source : Samuel Rogers (1843). “Poems”, p.94

Samuel Rogers

#Happiness Quotes #Ease Quotes #Hours Quotes

“I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders." --Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company”
“I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.”
“When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.”
“The quickest way to release heaven on earth is to worship. Worship is the main activity of heaven and the destiny of all created things.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 10, 2012
“Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.”
“Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.”
“Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.”
“I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers is undoubtedly a decent and competent person. But her selection will unavoidably be judged as reflecting a combination of cronyism and capitulation on the part of the president.”

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