"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

-- Emily Dickinson

#Nature Quotes #Writing Quotes #Adversity Quotes

“The end of all motion is its beginning; for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from which begins to be moved and to which it tends ever to return, in order to cease and rest in it.”
“As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.”
“Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks... show off. To me, that's what bullying is, showing off. It's saying, I'm better than you, I can take you down. Not just physically, but emotionally.”
“Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.”

Source : William Cowper, “The Task: Book Vi. -- The Winter Walk At Noon”
“We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.”
“A moment of choice is a moment of truth.”
“I feel like you can't just have fashion for fashion's sake.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.”

Source : Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History, 1906, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. June 11, 1895.

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