"truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more."

-- Herman Melville

#Long Quotes #Quality Quotes #World Quotes

“Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.”

Source : Donald Barthelme (2013). “Snow White”, p.184, Simon and Schuster
“The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.”

Source : Wendell Phillips (1891). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters: Second series”
“I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.”
“Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.”
“In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I would like a bit of me - thatâ€™s how I put my back out!”
“He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand”
“Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.”

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