"Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break."

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Source : Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

Sara Teasdale

#Beauty Quotes #Heart Quotes #Bitterness Quotes

“I feel like the harder the work, the better off I'll be later in the season. If I don't work out, it's not so much my letting me down as it is letting everybody else down.”
“My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish poems to my "crappy poems" file.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure.”
“When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!”
“The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.”

Source : Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.3310, Harper Collins
“Nothing can be comparable to good health”
“So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.”

Source : Statement to John Leyburn on May 01, 1870. "R. E. Lee: A Biography" by Douglas Southall Freeman, 1934.
“I think I should be on the main stage. I don't think I'm an undercard candidate. I think the others should drop out.”

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