"The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods."

-- Henry Beston

#Summer Quotes #Country Quotes #Fall Quotes

“How was I supposed to know that you let two little bears hurt you, Goldilocks?" "Ah, yes, that mouth. I missed it. All mine now.”
“As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!”
“Language helps form the limits of our reality.”
“The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.”

Source : John Henry Jowett (1916). “The Whole Armour of God”
“There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.”
“Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.”
“But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an environment; atoms, not bits. My books are not dead weight, they are live weight â€” matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in oneâ€™s own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows.”
“A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.”

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