"Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were."

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Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

A.S.A. Harrison

#Life Quotes #Tolls Quotes #Way Quotes

“Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.”
“Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”
“On 3 things in his bucket list: On my bucket list... Uhm, the question is totally catching me by surprise. Some more travel, spending quality time with my family and just getting the most I can out of my wife and daughter.”
“And keep a sense of humor. It doesn't mean you have to tell jokes. If you can't think of anything else, when you're my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you'll get a laugh.”
“I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.”

Source : Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College
“Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.”
“We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”
“It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.”

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