"It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below."

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Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.88, Vanderbilt University Press

Rebecca Harding Davis

#Summer Quotes #Wise Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Nothing that is worth doing is ever easy.”

Source : "Can I Have a Hammer?". Ruzwana Bashir's remarks at "The Global Search for Education" panel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2014.
“One should do nothing other than what is directly or indirectly of benefit to living beings.”
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.”
“I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.”
“I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.”

Source : The George Washington University Interview, nsarchive2.gwu.edu. January 18, 1997.
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.”
“It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.”

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