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| Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; & so we float on & on, hoping to come to a landing-place at last—but swoop! we launch into the great sea! Yet the geographers say, even then we must not despair, because across the great sea, however desolate & vacant it may look, lie all Persia & the delicious lands roundabout Damascus. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Jan. 8, 1852, to Sophia Peabody Hawthorne. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). ~ |
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| ...idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing. |
| ~ Grenville Kleiser ~ |
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| Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so, And spedde as wel in love as men now do; Eek for to winne love in sondry ages, In sondry londes, sondry ben usages. |
| ~ Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), British poet. ~ |
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| A virtuous expediency, then, seems the highest desirable or attainable earthly excellence for the mass of men, and is the only earthly excellence that their Creator intended for them. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre bk. XIV (1852), The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). Written by Plotinus Plinlimmon, in a pamphlet. ~ |
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| To be angry at hearing other people speaking highly of one's enemies is totally inappropriate, because at least in the mind of the person who is praising this enemy, there is some sense of fulfillment, some satisfaction. That person is doing so because he or she feels joyous and happy, and one should rejoice in that because one's enemy has caused someone to be satisfied. If possible one should also join in the praise rather than trying to obstruct it. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, November 15, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| "An Ambush," said Owl, "is a sort of Surprise." "So is a gorse-bush sometimes," said Pooh. |
| ~ -- What sort of Prize? _Winnie-the-Pooh_, p. 107 ~ |
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| Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph. |
| ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, assistant secretary of the Navy, speech before the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, June 1897.—“Washington’s Forgotten Maxim,” American Ideals (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 12, p. 198 (1926). ~ |
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