Quotes of Miscellaneous - somelinesforyou

“ Thought is something limitless and independent, and has been mixed with no thing but is alone by itself.... What was mingled with it would have prevented it from having power over anything in the way in which it does.... For it is the finest of all things and the purest. ”

- Anaxagoras

“ It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it. ”

- Anthony Trollope

“ Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights. ”

- Emily Bronte

“ Your words and performances are no kin together. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it. ”

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

“ It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations. ”

- Farnsworth Crowder

“ Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Is there no difference," asked Helena, with a little faltering in her manner; "between submission to a generous spirit, and submission to a base or trivial one? ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Out of natural courtesy he received, but did not appropriate. It was like a gift placed in the palm of an outreached hand upon which the fingers do not close. ”

- Herman Melville

“ I saw, I imitated, I survived! ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. ”

- Herman Melville

“ As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know. ”

- Sophocles
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