#ear

Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#winning

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#knowledge

Some are born great, others achieve greatness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #achievement

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#deeds #graves #left #over #shed

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent. ↗

— Plato

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare

Fear always springs from ignorance. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#ignorance #spring

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#poems-of-blood-and-passion #spring #spring

I tend to scare myself. ↗

— Stephen King

#king