"Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood."

-- Alexander Pope

#Blood Quotes #Doe Quotes #Ems Quotes

“In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.”

Source : Mary Ritter Beard, Nancy F. Cott (1991). “A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters”, p.229, Yale University Press
“Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.”
“We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God.”
“Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.”
“Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.”
“Don't ever, ever quit. Recognize that stopping now, regrouping to try a new approach isn't quitting. If you quit you'll regret it forever”
“A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.”
“In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.”

Source : Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.10, Lulu.com

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