"None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give."

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John Dryden

#Running Quotes #Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.”
“A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.”

Source : 1954 A Shocking Life, ch.21.
“It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.”
“Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths”

Source : Andrew Harvey (2010). “The Direct Path”, p.249, Random House
“The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research hospital acquires an iatrogenic (Caused by the treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures.”
“Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.”
“It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.”
“Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.”

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