"The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals."

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Source : 1833 Last Essays of Elia,'Confessions of a Drunkard'.

Charles Lamb

#Drinking Quotes #Men Quotes #Sober Quotes

“They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it.”
“Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.”
“We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.”
“Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?”
“Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.”
“I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”
“What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination that looks forward to the making of a future, not backward to the insignia of the past. Their enterprise is underwritten by a Constitution that allows for the widest horizons of sight and the broadest range of expression, supports the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state, and stands as premise for a narrative rather than plan for an invasion or a monument. The narrative was always plural; not one story, many stories.”
“Men's hearts are being searched...it is a tremendous sifting time, not only of actions but of inner motives. Nothing can escape the all-searching eye of God.”

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