"Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors."

-- Jonathan Swift

#Greatness Quotes #Painful Quotes #Neighbor Quotes

“We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.”
“The things people really want are love, connection, and purpose.”
“I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.”

Source : "Up Front". Book by Bill Mauldin, 1945.
“Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.”
“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”
“I think being a poet, period, is isolating.”
“Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.”
“Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express”

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