"Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices."

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Source : George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

John Arbuthnot

#Men Quotes #Vices Quotes #May Quotes

“You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.”

Source : "Interview: AWOLNATION Musician: Aaron Bruno". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.”
“If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.”
“A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.”
“True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.”
“When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.”
“When your whole being is attracted to someone else's whole being, then I think that is someone you were meant to be connected with at some point.”
“Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven; To his feet thy tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, Who like me his praise should sing?”

Source : 1834 'Praise, my Soul, the King of Heaven'.

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