#dl

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. ↗

— Mencius

#enter #into #kindly #kindness #men

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#aim #alarmed #endless #endless series #hence

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. ↗

— Michelangelo

#beauty #day #end #eyes #flame

Ramen is a dish that's very high in calories and sodium. One way to make it slightly healthier is to leave the soup and just eat the noodles. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#dish #eat #healthier #high #just

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#chances #fought #grounds #others #principle

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#had #i #intellectual #interest #naturally

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ↗

— Washington Irving

#beams #blazes #broad #dark #daylight

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ↗

— Washington Irving

#beams #blazes #broad #dark #daylight

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. ↗

— Washington Irving

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