"Your eyes smile peace."

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Source : Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clive Wilmer (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.26, Routledge

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“So a part of you is broken when thatâ€™s gone. And part of you wants to have that rebellious feeling where youâ€™re just like, forget it â€” I can do anything I want. Iâ€™ve tried it, and Iâ€™ve never been that girl. Iâ€™m always going to be the girl you want to take home to your parents, not for the night.”
“Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.”
“I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria which may help us distinguish institutions which merit development because they support learning in a deschooled milieu; and to clarify those personal goals which would foster the advent of an Age of Leisure ( schole ) as opposed to an economy dominated by service industries.”
“You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?”
“It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9”

Source : "Sweet Home Alabama". Interview with Alec Cawthorne, www.bbc.co.uk. December 2002.
“Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go." "Ooh, me, too," Eve said. The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it. "What? It's what girls do. Get over it.”
“I love that smell of the emissions!”
“There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.”

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