"Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses."

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Source : William Cobbett (2006). “Advice to Young Men”, p.33, Cosimo, Inc.

William Cobbett

#Dance Quotes #Animal Quotes #People Quotes

“Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.”
“Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.”
“The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.”
“In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.”
“The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.”
“What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?”

Source : "On Canaan’s Side". Book by Sebastian Barry, July 22, 2011.
“Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.”
“My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the souls and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.”

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