Today Quotes
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.Charles Darwin
Go, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.Helen Keller, Quote of the day book
The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary.Max Lucado, "And the Angels were Silent the Final Week of Jesus"
O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!Sophocles, Oedpius Rex
No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!Thomas Hood (1799-1845), in the poem called No!
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butler
"Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey