"Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty..."

-- Louisa May Alcott

#Doe Quotes #Praise Quotes #Anonymity Quotes

“I've never thought of you like that,' said Christopher. 'How could I? If you were any other woman, I could tell you I loved you, easily enough, but not you-- because you've always seemed to me like a part of myself, and it would be like saying I loved my own eyes or my own mind. But have you ever thought of what it would be to have to live without your mind or your eyes, Kate? To be mad? Or blind?”
“The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.”
“Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity”
“Desire and longing are the whips of God.”

Source : Anna Wickham (1921). “The Contemplative Quarry ; And, The Man with a Hammer”
“He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had come to accept that this would only be half as good as the original, half as acceptable as the flawless, unachievable novel that had acted as a guide, and which he imagined pulsating mockingly behind each book like some ghostly presence.”
“The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.”
“To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”
“One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.”

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