"Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave."

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Source : G. A. Henty (2012). “The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt”, p.34, Courier Corporation

G.A. Henty

#Men Quotes #May Quotes #Slave Quotes

“The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the worldâ€™s malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if thereâ€™s nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because youâ€™ve nothing better to do.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.124, Penguin
“Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough; And Ã¡ll trÃ¡des, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.”
“I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.”
“I like creativity in data collection. Here are a few creative Google Analytics tracking ideas I have seen:”
“Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.”

Source : Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”
“Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape”
“Whenever we play a really good game, everybody's going to be a hero, and the good part about it is nobody's trying to be a hero.”
“So, it's not every patient that I see, but I'd say a good 70% to 80% of the patients when they go to bed it's like a stereo is playing at an 11 or 12 and they can't turn it down, at all. So it makes it very hard for their body to down regulate to be able to go to bed at night.”

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