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Post by Gator on Aug 10, 2019 23:42:07 GMT -5
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Gilbert Chesterton
(1874-1936)
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Post by Gator on Aug 12, 2019 3:57:29 GMT -5
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot
(1819-1880)
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Post by Gator on Aug 12, 2019 23:42:24 GMT -5
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
Willa Cather
(1873-1947)
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Post by Gator on Aug 13, 2019 23:33:59 GMT -5
He is wise who loveth well.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Post by Gator on Aug 15, 2019 1:41:39 GMT -5
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen
(1775-1817)
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Post by Gator on Aug 16, 2019 4:43:52 GMT -5
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
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Post by Gator on Aug 17, 2019 5:35:38 GMT -5
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
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Post by Gator on Aug 18, 2019 6:28:45 GMT -5
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745)
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Post by Gator on Aug 19, 2019 8:26:12 GMT -5
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
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Post by Gator on Aug 19, 2019 23:23:09 GMT -5
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
Jane Austen
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Post by Gator on Aug 21, 2019 1:25:52 GMT -5
The very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.
Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)
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Post by Gator on Aug 22, 2019 12:26:34 GMT -5
As long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.
L. Frank Baum
(1856-1919)
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Post by Gator on Aug 23, 2019 10:49:25 GMT -5
Trying to stop slanderers' tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Post by Gator on Aug 24, 2019 8:01:34 GMT -5
What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
Oscar Wilde
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Post by Gator on Aug 25, 2019 4:10:55 GMT -5
I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745)
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