"And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose."

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Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

James Payn

#Prose Quotes #Verses Quotes

“The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.”

Source : "Why We Fight", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?”
“Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are the timeless axis of all action and preception. The only difference is that one 'knows' himself for what he is while the other does not. The idea of being a person, an ego, is nothing other than an image held together by memory.”

Source : Jean Klein (2006). “I Am”, p.11, New Harbinger Publications
“The wisest men follow their own direction.”
“We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.”
“No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.”

Source : "Jenni Rivera’s Inspirational Quotes, Remembering 'La Diva De La Banda' On Her Birthday" by Carolina Moreno, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2013.
“I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.”
“Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.”

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