"You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own â€” What are you when the rose is blown?"

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Source : Sir Henry Wotton, John HANNAH (Archdeacon of Lewes.) (1857). “Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. Edited by the Rev. John Hannah”, p.14

Henry Wotton

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“Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him...even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.”
“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
“I've always liked to shoot from the hip. This is the perfect fit for me ... I'm willing to earn my spurs, because once again, after 18 years I'm back to being a rookie.”
“Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.”
“One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.”

Source : "Fictional character: Colonel Douglas Mortimer". "For a Few Dollars More", 1965.
“The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.”
“I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance”
“We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.”

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