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My Quotes Page

 

 

What if you slept?
And what if, in your sleep you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream,
   you went to heaven and there
  plucked a strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke,
   you had the flower in your hand?
Ah, what then?
 
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet

Welcome to my quotespage...

Here is my collection of quotes which have been painstakingly copied out from quite a number of books. Well, I don't have the time to copy out all of them so I have just selected a few. Enjoy.....

 

I must go down to the seas again,
To the lonely sea and the sky;
And all I ask is a tall ship
And a star to steer her by.
 
- John Masefield

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
 
- T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding," Four Quartets (1942).

Great ideas come through the world as gently as doves.
Perhaps then, if we listen attentively,
  we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations
  a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope.
 
- Albert Camus

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment
that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going."
 
- Tennessee Williams

Don't be afraid your life will end;
  be afraid that it will never begin.
 
- Grace Hansen

I am only. But still, I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
 
- Edward Everett Hale

I respect faith,
  but doubt is what gives you an education.
 
- Wilson Mizner

I kept six honest serving men
They taught me all I knew.
Their names were What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who
 
- R. Kipling

 

Beauty

"The best and most beautiful things in the world
  cannot be seen or touched
  They must be felt with the heart......"

- Helen Keller

My friend, all theory is gray
and the golden tree of life is green.

- Goethe, Faust.

Keep your face to the sunshine
and you cannot see the shadow.

- Hellen Keller

Heaven wheels above you displaying to you her eternal glories
and still your eyes are on the ground.

- Dante.

 


 

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