"In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper."

-- Mikhail Lermontov

#Nature Quotes #Heart Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.”
“Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.”
“I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?”
“The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.”

Source : Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone
“On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.”
“Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.”
“If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.”
“I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.”

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