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E. Y. Harburg quote: "When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near."

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently. Thomas Hobbes
Rumi quote: "Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night"
Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night Rumi
There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range. H. P. Lovecraft
Muhammad Ali quote: "It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting..."
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. Muhammad Ali
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "We aim above the mark to hit the mark."
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. Thomas Carlyle
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission. Theodore Bikel
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it. Bertrand Russell
The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates. Vladimir Nabokov
You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place. Jodi Picoult
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. Ogden Nash
John Hay quote: "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it."
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. John Hay
I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand. Mark Twain
Curtis Sittenfeld quote: "Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist."
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. Curtis Sittenfeld
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Total nonretention has kept my education from being a burden..."
Total nonretention has kept my education from being a burden to me. Flannery O'Connor