"The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love."

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Source : Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alfred Bendixen (1989). “The Amber Gods, and Other Stories”, p.76, Rutgers University Press

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

#Love Quotes #Wind Quotes #Earth Quotes

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“Philosophers sometimes also use 'reductionist' more strictly, to mean 'type-identities' between mental and physical categories, and to exclude 'non-reductive physicalisms' like metaphysical functionalism.”
“A neighbor is a far better and cheaper alternative to government services.”
“Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!”
“Words are loneliness.”
“For me, there's a tremendous challenge of singing with Faith, who, in my opinion is one of the best singers in the world. She doesn't get enough credit for being as good as she is. She's so beautiful that people look past her singing. But for a journeyman like me to keep up with her is a real tough sprint.”
“Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.”
“Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.”

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