"It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls."

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Source : Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

Katharine Lee Bates

#Easter Quotes #Soul Quotes #Hours Quotes

“My hair takes a while to get right, I use wax to get it to stand up.”
“I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.”
“It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?”
“I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.”
“History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.”
“I would encourage women to own their vulnerable moments. We're all human and we don't have it all together - that is perfectly okay. Admit when you're having a hard time and don't hesitate to ask for help. You will be very surprised when you realise we are all in the same boat at one time or another.”
“Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You donâ€™t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.”
“To a real child anything will serve as a toy.”

Source : John Cowper Powys (2013). “Autobiography”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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