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Time is but the stream I go a-fishi…

13 Oct , 2011  

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I […]

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Anna Louise Strong

To fall in love is easy, even to re…

13 Oct , 2011  

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. Great short quote and quotation by: Anna Louise Strong ,

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Richard T. Ely

We have among us a class of mammon …

15 Feb , 2011  

We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism. Great short quote and quotation by: […]

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Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?

What then is the American, this new…

15 Feb , 2011  

What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french […]

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Brian Clark, Play title

Whose life is it anyway?…

15 Feb , 2011  

Whose life is it anyway? Great short quote and quotation by: Brian Clark, Play title , (1932 – )

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Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I kno…

15 Feb , 2011  

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening , US poet (1874 – 1963)

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Voltaire

You despise books; you whose lives …

27 Apr , 2010  

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must pay for conformity. All go…

27 Apr , 2010  

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, […]

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Lord Byron

[Poetry] is the lava of the imagina…

11 Jan , 2010  

[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. Great short quote and quotation by: Lord Byron , English poet & satirist (1788 – 1824)

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