"The shadows of twilight grow, And the tigerâ€™s ancient fierceness In my veins begins to flow."

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Source : William Wetmore Story (1868). “Graffiti D'Italia”, p.154

William Wetmore Story

#Twilight Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Veins Quotes

“The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.”

Source : Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”
“The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.”
“It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer.”
“It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.”
“All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack by both sides; this No Man's Land is philosophy.”
“If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it.”
“The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.”

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