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James Holman
"Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life."
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Source : James Holman (1840). “Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, Etc. Etc”, p.10
James Holman
#Wise Quotes
#Cups Quotes
#Bitter Quotes
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“Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.”
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“When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper, we see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there's nothing more to it. We leave it be. The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.”
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“I can start with the idea of taking until you can take off, through the idea that all of my writing foregrounds the idea of how I'm taking from my own life. I'm stealing from my own life in a way, and from the people around me, but in service of getting somewhere else. I'm starting with an autobiographical impulse, to get a better vantage on the circumstances of the life that I happen to be in at the moment and how that life connects to others.”
Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
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“Beauties, when disposed to sleep, Should from the eye of keen inspector keep: The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise, May close her mouth, but not conceal her eyes; Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes, And all the homely features homelier makes.”
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“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
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“Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.”
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“Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.”
Source : Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #2: Blade of Fire”, p.683, Scholastic Inc.
