"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Truth Quotes #Light Quotes

“Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.”
“Rachael Sage is a marvelous young artist- and I am a fan!! 'Haunted by You' has a beauty that shines through her lyrics and melodies-- poignant, tender and tough. These are stories from the heart that will lift you up and carry you to places you had never dreamed.”
“Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.”

Source : John James Audubon, Christoph Irmscher (1999). “Writings and drawings”
“If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.”
“What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.”
“For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.”
“I would say that I'm happy getting to make a living playing music and seeing people enjoy music that I make. So far, things have grown consistently and quicker than I thought they would, so that could possibly continue. Even if it ended tomorrow, I'd be really grateful that I got to do it.”
“Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (2013). “Human Voices”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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