"Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven."

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Source : James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir”, p.162

James Montgomery

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“She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.”

Source : Tad Williams (2017). “River of Blue Fire: Otherland”, p.580, Hachette UK
“All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.”
“Begin early to teach, for children begin early to sin.”
“I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking.”
“Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.”
“The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners.”
“Weâ€™re seeking â€” imperfectly at every turn, no doubt â€” an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all the people, good news that God loves the world and didnâ€™t send Jesus to condemn it but to save it, good news that Godâ€™s wrath is not merely punitive but restorative, good news that the fire of Godâ€™s holiness is not bent on eternal torment but always works to purify and refine, good news that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.”
“My love is my soul's imagination... how do I love you... imagine.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ray Joshua". "Slam", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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