#classics

...nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose... ↗

— Mary Shelley

#education #education

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face? ↗

— Homer

#family #greece #insult #family

A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#devotional-classics #hard-times #inspirational-quotes #inspirational

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength. ↗

— Ovid

#classics #greek #humans #intelligence #metamorphoses

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#always #become #books #captains #classics

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #love #marianne-dashwood #sense-and-sensibility #world

Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang ↗

— Lao Tzu

#classics #tao-te-ching #balance

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#drama #english-literature #drama

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