"surfeits kill more than fasting does ..."

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Source : Dorothy Osborne (1914). “The letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple”

Dorothy Osborne

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“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
“As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.”

Source : Playboy Interview. Vol. 18, no. 3, p. 70, March 1971.
“The Innkeepers were two nerds in a dead-end job and then they try to get involved and they get in over their heads, and how does it affect them? That, to me, just seems like what happens to people.”
“There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.”
“the one universal form of art is music.”
“There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.”
“All nights end, and all storms clear. The only storms that last are those within your own soul.”

Source : Christie Golden (2014). “World of Warcraft: War Crimes”, p.107, Simon and Schuster
“The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”

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