"I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep."

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Source : Bryan Waller Procter (1857). “Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed”, p.269

Bryan Procter

#Wise Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Simple Quotes

“A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.”
“Art still has truth. Take refuge there.”
“I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.”
“Iâ€™d love to be faster. Physically Iâ€™m limited, but Iâ€™ve survived by using my head.”
“It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.”
“An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.”
“The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!”
“Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of clichÃ© and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.84, Penguin

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