-The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
-One act of beneficence, one act of … Read the rest
A.K. Giffin
If it were not for lawyers, we wouldn’t need them.
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Michael Frayn
You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there is nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.”
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William Dubois Quotations
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need for that work. With this life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this–with work which you despise, … Read the rest
William Congreve
She likes herself, yet others hates
For that which in herself she prizes;
And, while she laughs at them, forgets
She is the thing that she despises.
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Paramanhansa Yogananda Quotations
Many people excuse their own faults but judge others harshly.
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Robert McKee
-For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of (the writer) is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure.
-A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence … Read the rest