"𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓷𝓸 𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓬𝓮 𝓪𝓰𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓽 𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓵 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓷 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓶𝓪𝓷 𝓲𝓷 𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓰𝓮."
- 𝓒𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓑𝓾𝓻𝓴𝓮
“Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.”
~G.K. Chesterton
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“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.”
~John Muir
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Sonnet 73
"That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire,
Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.
This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long."
~William Shakespeare
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The Twilight Rain
By Matsuo Bashō
"In the twilight rain
These brilliant-hued hibiscus -
A lovely sunset."
"Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God."
~Saint Augustine
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Job 38:7
"When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
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"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
~Ezra Pound
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"I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose."
~Beethoven
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"If you attempt to teach children how the sign has led to the neglect of the thing signified, how money is the source of all the false ideas of society, how countries rich in silver must be poor in everything else, you will be treating these children as philosophers, and not only as philosophers but as wise men, for you are professing to teach them what very few philosophers have grasped."
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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