"Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love."

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Source : Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”, p.181, Random House

Eleanor Farjeon

#Life Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Light Quotes

“Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other simple positions which respond to technique rather than to imagination.”
“But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.”
“There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason.”
“The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.”
“"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."”
“Patriarchal life, you’re out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way!”

Source : "Song: Patriarchy (Over & Out) (Album:All Love's Legal)". 2014.
“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.”
“You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.”

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