"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."

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Source : Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.277

Edward Gibbon

#Single Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Loneliness Quotes

“This is a choice I made 26 years ago when I joined the magazine. Vogue was in Italian but I wanted to speak to everyone so I thought of creating images that were made to talk.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.”
“My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.”
“Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.”
“Are you under the power of gold?”
“The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experience into those particular regions and to leave the others to themselves. We seek out those parts that are known and familiar and avoid those that are unknown and unfamiliar. This is simply what is called 'Applied Science.'”
“I had a very linear story line for this particular play, and I wanted to open the piece up a bit, so I started doing that with my writing. I would describe fragments of scenes on index cards, then move the card around to see how it changed the piece.”
“It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to say 'what are you at?' - before the first tree it ever spoke to is a dummy, or the first hill it ever ran down has turned blue, here we all have airs and graces, demands and assertions of a full grown river.”

Source : R. D. Blackmore (2015). “Crocker's Hole: From "Slain by the Doones"”, p.4, The Floating Press

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