"Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning."

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Source : Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

Pearl Bailey

#Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (1874). “The Moonstone: A Novel”, p.179
“When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.”
“Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.”
“Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.”

Source : James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”, p.621
“Of course the concept is to give people samples to get them hooked, I get that. But to continuously give away our music, that's the reason why you don't see [many] rap award shows anymore, the reason that you don't see rappers in commercials anymore; because we have allowed our music to be devalued.”
“Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
“Love to Christ is proved by doing the things which He commands, and not merely saying, Lord, Lord.”

Source : Charles Henry Mackintosh, Andrew MILLER (One of the Plymouth Brethren.) (1857). “Notes on the Book of Genesis. [By C. H. M., i.e. C. H. Mackintosh. Edited by A. M., i.e. Andrew Miller.] Second edition, revised”, p.178
“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.”

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