"Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save."

-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

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“It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip Thou dost not fall.”

Source : Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.53
“In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.”
“Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.”
“Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.”
“So many of the things we are doing right now as a country are things that lead to loss of a country. I leave you with this thought and challenge any historian, no mater who you are where you are. You show me a country that ever met its demise while as a nation it was honoring the one true God. You won't find it. Let's keep this country alive.”
“Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.”

Source : Herbert Bayer, Beaumont Newhall (1977). “Herbert Bayer: Photographic Works an Exhibition”
“Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.”

Source : Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.65, Vintage
“There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.”

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