"Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies, Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies: The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays, On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays; Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume, Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume."

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Source : Phillis Wheatley (2008). “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

Phillis Wheatley

#Eye Quotes #Race Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.”
“When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.”
“I never get bored, because thereâ€™s always different puzzles, Iâ€™m wearing different clothes, thereâ€™s different contestants, thereâ€™s different prizes.”
“A point guard is judged by wins and losses. I think I'm doing a good job.”
“Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is”
“There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.”
“It's so important that we say 'I can see his point of view and I can see his point of view'.”
“One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.”

Source : Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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