"The most agreeable thing in life is worthy accomplishment. It is not possible that the idle tramp is as contented as the farmers along the road who own their own farms, and whose credit is good at the bank in town. When the tramps get together at night, they abuse the farmers, but do not get as much satisfaction out of it as do the farmers who abuse the tramps. The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."

-- E. W. Howe

#Night Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes #Abuse Quotes

“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”

Source : China Mieville (2000). “King Rat”, p.254, Macmillan
“I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.”
“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: 'Does this path have a heart?'”
“The reward is found in the work.”
“This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.”
“To get Congress to do anything.”
“Twitter is your window to relevance , but Facebook is your home page for the Social Web”
“I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.”

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