"When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home."

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Source : Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.272

Walter Savage Landor

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“Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.”
“After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.”

Source : Quoted in Times (London), 6 Oct. 1993.
“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”
“All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.”
“The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.”
“That's what yoga teaches: how to be fully present now, no matter the circumstance.”

Source : Tara Stiles (2012). “Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free”, p.21, Harmony
“to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.”
“Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.”

Source : Dorothy Wordsworth (1875). “Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A.D. 1803”, p.26

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