"If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were."

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Source : Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.683

Sir John Davies

#Book Quotes #School Quotes #Affliction Quotes

“Perseverance is a great element of success.”
“Sometimes you donâ€™t know when youâ€™re taking the first step through a door until youâ€™re already inside.”
“I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.”
“San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening”
“I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very difficult to form a clear idea of their nature, especially when compounded bodies are under consideration.”
“How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?”

Source : Terence (1859). “Comedies of Terence”, p.182
“Palestine is about how we drink the water, whether we are being ecological or not. Palestine is our way of exercising our daily living. That's what's going to solve the problem of Palestine. It's also how we think of ourselves spiritually. This kind of disconnectedness is harmful to the person who is acting that way and is sometimes annoying.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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