‘After seeing one magpie, is there a time limit before you see the next one? If I see one at nine in the morning and the next one at five in the afternoon, is that two sorrows or one joy?’
Category: Quote Of The Week
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‘When you insult or injure the unfortunate or the unhappy, you insult Christ Himself and He will not forget, for they are His Chosen ones.’
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‘There where we find the deepest grief, there shall we begin the cure.’
‘The Knight’s Tale’ from The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
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‘The moon makes dark shadows where the dreams hide. The light is like reason, when the shadows go so too will the dreams.’
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‘Though the ostensible aim of the war was to protect the Turks in the Danube provinces from the invading Russians, the real object, frankly avowed in the Press, was to destroy Sebastopol and end Russian naval power in the Mediterranean.’
The Reason Why – Behind the Scenes at the Charge of The Light Brigade – Cecil Woodham Smith
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‘Each step and each new day would be different from any that had ever been because we would be together.’
Oasis Nine – (short story from Young Man on a Bicycle and other stories) – Victor Canning
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‘His heart and soul were at the end of his pen, and they got into the ink.’
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‘No word of complaint ever passes his lips, however, for he is one of the aristocrats of the spirit – the poor artist who wishes for nothing but a chance to create.’
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‘Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.’
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‘No easy flowery path leads to any place worth arriving at.’
Things In My Head 