#at

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. ↗

— E. V. Lucas

#defence #elaborate #like

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#any #calculation #continual #dealing #exercise

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. ↗

— Lucretius

#contented mind #great #live #mind #soul

It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments - changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day. ↗

— Libba Bray

#beauty

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me. ↗

— Jane Grey

#although #attention #attentions #death #desires

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#called #good #invisible #made #name

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#any #bad #felt #great #gregory

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#colonies #conquest #contact #dutch #free

So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#been #change #conclusions #considered #draw

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#independence #individuality #leadership #submission #suppression