"Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou went by."

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Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

George Linley

#Missing You Quotes #Stars Quotes #Sorry Quotes

“It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.”
“So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.”
“A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.”
“For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.”
“I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways[.] That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.”
“Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that it must adapt itself to the varying necessities of the times and the varying dispositions of souls, since it is not contained in an unchangeable revelation, but is, by its very nature, meant to accommodate itself to the life of man.”
“America is a mistake, a giant mistake.”
“My goal is to create an image that would remind you of something that you haven't seen before.”

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