"Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water"

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Source : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.94, Faber & Faber

Louis MacNeice

#Giving Quotes #Water Quotes #World Quotes

“Don't write it right, just write it, and then make it right later.”
“Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.”

Source : Tom Upton (2008). “Mourning Doves”, p.139, Tom Upton
“There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.10, Adam, Stevenson
“It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.”
“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”
“Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.”
“True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.”
“I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.”

Source : Source: www.surfrhythm.com

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