"Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world."

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Source : John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”

John Burroughs

#Life Quotes #Stars Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.”
“Events in the early 1990s in New York City, Texas, and Florida appear to have raised, in the eyes of CBS News, for example, the question of whether religion as such is incompatible with good social order.”
“A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.”
“But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they fly and their huge wings alternately gliding and flapping as they maneuver through the trees. Athena's owl of wisdom and Merlin's companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind.”
“If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.”
“Sith Nature thus gave her the praise, To be the chiefest work she wrought, In faith, methink, some better ways On your behalf might well be sought, Than to compare, as ye have done, To match the candle with the sun.”

Source : Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics
“Never complain. When I did, my mother said that if I didnâ€™t like my life, I could just give up and die. She reminded me that when I was inside her, I told her that I wanted to be born, so she delivered me, breastfed me and changed my diapers. She said that I had to be brave.”
“Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.”

Source : Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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