"Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin."

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Source : Sir Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell (1822). “The Poems of Garth, and Tickell”, p.48

Samuel Garth

#Running Quotes #Lines Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.”
“I had to sit in front of all these people, and act like I knew what I was doing. I faked my way through it pretty well.”
“If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough."”

Source : Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. January 28, 2008.
“What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!”
“It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.”
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
“You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.”
“Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.”

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