"indistinctness is my forte."

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Source : "The Life of J.M.W. Turner,: ... Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by His Friends and Fellow Academicians". Book by Walter Thornbury, volume 2, p. 243, 1862.

J. M. W. Turner

#Style Quotes #Forte Quotes

“Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.”

Source : "Ellen Barkin on 'Another Happy Day,' Sam Levinson, and Being a 'Broad'". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. November 15, 2011.
“Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situationâ€”without the pestilence of panic or fear.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.17, Penguin
“Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.”

Source : Alexander Berkman (1912). “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist”
“Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory.”

Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1892). “Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...”
“Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of his life never allowed him the freedom of choice. He might perhaps sincerely have preferred the groves of the Academy and the society of Athens; but he was constrained, at first by the will, and afterwards by the injustice of Constantius, to expose his person and fame to the dangers of Imperial greatness; and to make himself accountable to the world and to posterity for the happiness of millions.”
“You know, I want to be the uncommon one. I think it's pretty cool that I'm only 5'11, you know, and playing in the National Football League.”
“I am sure that all complaints regarding me were initiated from Ukraine.”
“deep in the meadow , under the willow , a bed of grass , a soft green pillow”

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