"The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song."

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Source : EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.300

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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“Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.”

Source : John Wesley (1980). “John Wesley”, p.93, Oxford University Press
“We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. Oneâ€™s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of oneâ€™s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.11, Counterpoint
“Good givers are great getters.”
“One of the things I preach to all my staff is never be frightened to make a decision.”
“Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.”
“Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.”

Source : "Dr. Heidenhoff's Process". Book by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 11, 1880.
“Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killerâ€™s mind, how he operates. They donâ€™t read, which is rightfully so. If they have a life to live, theyâ€™re not going to spend a lot of time reading up on killers if thatâ€™s not in their interest. Certainly, Serial Killers and killers have the advantage in that they use the element of surpriseâ€¦uhâ€¦darkness, and such things as thisâ€¦”
“Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.”

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