#art

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#breathe #charity #heart #kindliness #magnanimity

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#caught #hat #heart #measure #poet

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. ↗

— Steven Wright

#elephant #got #lost #pet #somewhere

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#brains #clothes #hearts #liking #make

His huff arrived and he departed in it. ↗

— Alexander Woollcott

#departed #his

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#depressed #game #got #i #me

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#benign #better #business #droop #gracious

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me. ↗

— John Woolman

#attended #fail #follow #frequently #given

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor. ↗

— John Woolman

#certainty #continent #cries #ears #favor

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me. ↗

— John Woolman

#before #broken #dangers #desires #earnestness