"Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance"

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Source : Robert Blair, Robert Anderson (1802). “The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner”, p.9

Robert Blair

#Pain Quotes #Remembrance Quotes #Joy Quotes

“For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.”
“Things never happen exactly how you think they will.”

Source : David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.106, Penguin
“No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your job and you're going to know when to pass and shoot. If you can't do those four things you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are.”
“The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.”

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“I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.”
“Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.”
“We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.”
“Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.”

Source : Eric Bentley (1986). “The Pirandello Commentaries”, p.9, Northwestern University Press

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