"Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead."

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Source : George Sewell (1719). “The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields”, p.12

George Sewell

#Sleep Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Clay Quotes

“Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers were the key parent in the upbringing of the next generation, because moral training, not emotional sensitivity, was thought to be central to successful child-rearing. Mothers were thought to corrupt their little ones with too much affection and not enough stern training.”
“Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.”
“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.35, Vintage
“School didn't work for me. I hated it.”
“I hope to become an actor who succeed not from how I look, but my talent.”
“The religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world.”
“There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the STORY of our lives better.”

Source : Interview with Adrian Comeau, "I Am Other People" series, www.asofterworld.com.
“Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'.”

Source : Lesley Hazleton (2013). “The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad”, p.14, Penguin

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