"This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise."

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Source : Alfred Noyes (1910). “The Enchanted Island: And Other Poems”

Alfred Noyes

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“Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.”
“Deep at the bottom of the well no warmth has yet returned, The rain which sighs and feels so cold has dampened withered roots. What sort of man at such a time would come to visit the teacher? As this is not a time for flowers, I find I've come alone.”
“Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in understanding three things: the grace of God, the Christian life, and the very nature of the gospel itself.”
“I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.”
“Take your time, teach what you love, be unabashedly you, and try not to compare yourself to someone who's been teaching longer than you.”
“When their lips met, and their tongues touched, it was like they were kissing in a hundred different places, and her senses were flooded with new sensations and old memoires. He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.”
“He doesnâ€™t beat me,â€ I said irritably. â€œIâ€™d kill him if he did.â€ â€œShe would. She has a temper. Stubborn, too. But weâ€™re working on that, arenâ€™t we, Ms. Lane?”
“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”

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