"Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man."

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Bernard Cornwell

#Men Quotes #Madness Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just didn't like Fourier's ideas very much. He thought it was all too rigid and programmatic. He said, "Fourier had skipped no fact but one, namely life." He thought it was an inhumane system - the day is scheduled too precisely. He didn't think it would work, and he was right.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.”
“Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.”

Source : Thomas Cogswell Upham (1848). “Religious Maxims, Having a Connection with the Doctrines and Practice of Holiness”, p.8
“Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1097, e-artnow sro
“Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.”

Source : Source: thebiglead.com
“The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.”
“Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.”
“Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.”

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