"The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters."

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Source : Alcæus, Fragment LXXXVI. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", 1922.

Alcaeus

#Chestnuts Quotes #Arcadia Quotes

“I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.”
“So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.”
“When God saves a man, He is regenerating his heart, turns him into a new creature, and the evidence is this ... he will live like a new creature and he will confess Christ.”
“A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.”
“You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.”
“Im massively scared of spiders. Even small ones scare the life out of me.”
“The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.”
“We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers”

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