"An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand."

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Source : W.N.P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary”, p.12, Courier Dover Publications

W.N.P. Barbellion

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“It's not the words but the music that counts.”
“You never have to question something that's real...”
“Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?”
“Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.”
“Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.”

Source : Richard Baxter, Benjamin Fawcett (1853). “The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven”, p.167
“For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.”
“there is direction but there is no destination”
“I still miss the players and I miss the game and the strategy. The first couple years were really difficult. Now I realize I'll never coach again. It's still hard to go into the stadium on a game day, because it's hard to just be a fan. But it's easier now than it was the first two or three years.”

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