"A universal beauty clothes the world, And one heart seems to beat for all mankind!"

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Source : Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.147

Robert Montgomery

#Heart Quotes #Clothes Quotes #Brotherhood Quotes

“When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.”
“The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.”
“What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.”
“Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.”
“I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.”

Source : "U.S. Aid Effort Criticized in New Orleans". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2005.
“We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.”

Source : "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.
“Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings.”
“But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.”

Source : Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.380, A&C Black

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