Today Quotes
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One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.Barry Lopez
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.Sir Francis Bacon
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.James Joyce
One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil.Nietzsche
Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven.Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, The Human Cycle
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.Leigh Hunt
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.Henry van Dyke
In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.Alan Moore, Birth Caul
As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love.Robert Cormier, We All Fall Down
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature