"Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses."

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Augustus William Hare

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #Hieroglyphics Quotes

“To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.”

Source : "Africa and Freedom". Albert Lutuli's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1961.
“Sometimes you audition and you just know that this is going to come to you.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”
“The New York State Freeway's closed, man. Far out!”
“Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.”

Source : Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press
“First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash.”
“Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.”
“We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.”

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