"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it."

-- Herman Melville

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“Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.”
“Iâ€™ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.”
“People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.”
“Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.”
“The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. Itâ€™s really precious, and itâ€™s really easy to lose.”
“If you allow one little sin to creep into your life, and think it doesn't matter, it will grow and grow until it affects your whole spiritual life, deflecting you from your primary aim of serving God.”
“You're expected to be perfect the day you start and then improve.”
“Just stand aside and watch yourself go by; Think of yourself as 'he' instead of 'I'.”

Source : Strickland W. Gillilan (1910). “Including Finnigin: A Book of Gillilan Verse”

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