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"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel."

Pope, Alexander on pride    Share


"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."

Golding, William on sleep
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"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."

Bowen, Catherine Drinker on writers and writing
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"Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on friends and friendship
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"Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on pleasure
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"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you."

Eckhart, Meister on self-expression    Share

"Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name."

Meynell, Alice on travel    Share

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