"Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare."

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Source : George Saintsbury (1924). “A Last Scrap Book”

George Saintsbury

#Thank God Quotes #Facts Quotes #Rejoice Quotes

“When was the last time I chose to be happy rather than demanding to be right?”
“Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.”
“God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 31 remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his name. Whatever we happen to make-not only in the visual arts, but in all the arts-we should make it as well as we can, offering God our very best.”
“I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.”
“I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.”
“But my big thing was always the blues.”
“I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.”
“About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me itÂ´s just the contrary. Often itÂ´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didnÂ´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.”

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