"A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time."

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Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.264, XinXii

Lew Wallace

#Birthday Quotes #Summer Quotes #Men Quotes

“Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?”
“For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same.”

Source : "Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo" by John Oliver Mason, progressive.org. August 5, 2005.
“We must be full reservoirs in order to let our water spill out without becoming empty, and we must possess the spirit with which we want them to be animated, for no one can give what he does not have.”
“I have no problem with thinking small. Sometimes you have to think small first in order to think big.”
“My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.”
“A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.”
“To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life.”
“I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.”

Source : Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.223

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