"No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel"

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Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Three Quatrains”

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Matter Quotes #Laurels Quotes #Leafs Quotes

“I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..”
“By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'”

Source : Walter Karp (1992). “Buried alive: essays on our endangered republic”, Franklin Square Pr
“Another day gone and no jokes.”
“All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.”
“The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.”
“To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.”
“You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.”
“The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is. The second most important belief is who we are as children of God, because we cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how we perceive ourselves.”

Source : Neil T. Anderson (2010). “Who I Am in Christ (Large Print 16pt)”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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