"How much do I love thee? Go ask the deep sea How many rare gems In its coral caves be; Or ask the broad billows, That ceaselessly roar, How many bright sands Do they kiss on the shore?"

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Source : Mary Ashley Townsend (1873). “Xariffa's Poems”, p.25

Mary Ashley Townsend

#Love Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer an answer, regardless of the belief system to which we subscribe.”
“Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.”
“It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.”
“Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing trends in education: in Nietzsche's case, the production either of 'useless', dry-as-dust scholars or people 'useful' for the needs of an expanding industrial economy; in my case, a similar subjection of education to economic imperatives, but also to ideological obsessions, notably with promoting 'equality'.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“It's a process and it's a matter of understanding the horse and through any of these little projects you have a beginning, a middle and an end. And if you made up your mind early when he's still scared, you'd think that wasn't working at all. Sometimes it might get darker, before it gets dawn. You might have to work at it a little bit in order for it to come out the other side.”
“Corporate worship is designed to remind you that in the center of all things is a glorious and gracious King, and this king is not you”
“A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing.”

Source : Dick King-Smith (2015). “Ace: The Very Important Pig”, p.64, Yearling
“The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked was Paul McCartney.”

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