"It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon."

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Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

Alice James

#Loss Quotes #Reeds Quotes #Trials Quotes

“Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.”
“My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.”
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
“Swipe from the best, then adapt.”
“The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".”
“This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the yearâ€™s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breathâ€¦”
“Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.”

Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1867). “St. Elmo: A Novel”, p.408

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