"The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it."

-- William Gurnall

“As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.”
“The trumpet is forceful.”
“Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.”

Source : Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.277, Macmillan
“Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.”
“And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.”
“I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.”
“My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.”
“Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.”

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