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  • I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Grandmother Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Solitude Quotes
  • The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Men Quotes