"The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came."

-- Christopher Morley

#Christian Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Literature Quotes

“It is said that people learn to hate each other because of little things ... not big ones. I know I have always learned to love because of little things ... I'm not at all sure that there are any big ones.”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
“The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.”
“Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and, as George Orwell said, 'Old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist' and, if we get our way, Shakespeare will still be read even in school.”
“The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.”
“I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would be the kind of stories you would write in an adult novel only they just happen to feature a child at the center of them.”
“The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.”
“Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.”
“The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.”

Source : George Farquhar (1760). “The Works of the Late Ingenious Mr. George Farquhar: Containing All His Poems, Letters, Essays and Comedies, Publish'd in His Life-time. In Two Volumes”

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