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  • We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Cities Quotes , Evil Quotes
  • Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Pain Quotes , Cities Quotes
  • But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Cities Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • One time there was a student at Punjab University in Lahore who came down with cancer and his friend came to me for help. I stood outside on the street in Lahore and asked the people in that city for help. Within four or five hours, I received more than 40 million rupees [more than US $670,000].
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abdul Sattar Edhi Quotes , Cancer Quotes , Cities Quotes