#class

Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#poetry #love

Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed. ↗

— Aberjhani

#americans #faith #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #haiku #haikus

In the privacy of my dreams, I'm a warrior. ↗

— Kimberly Derting

#fantasy #kings #queens #rulers #social-class

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ↗

— Mark Twain

#europe #traveling #voyage #men

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. ↗

— Russell Banks

#american #art #classics #early #early age

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#micawber #procrastination #classics

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#classics #reading #classics

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#sociology

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#believed #bringing #classes #government #growth

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other. ↗

— Homer

#greece #love #passion #peace #faith