"Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky."

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Source : Tobias Smollett (1806). “Life of Smollett, by R. Anderson. Roderick Random”, p.163

Tobias Smollett

#Eye Quotes #Heart Quotes #Eagles Quotes

“Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.”
“The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.”
“You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.”
“The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.”
“Strictly from the perspective of human well-being, the richest-but-warmest world characterized by the A1FI scenario would probably be superior to the poorer-but-cooler worlds at least through 2085, particularly if one considers the numerous ways GDP per capita advances human well-being.”
“Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it.... I didn't invent anything, I indicated.”
“Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.”
“He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more folio, just one more. One more page, then I'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about, he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it.”

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