#his

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#bad #becomes #darkness #deep #entangled

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#foreigner #his #like #man #own

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#given #his #man #speech #thoughts

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#children #feeds #his #home #loves

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#history #i #like #loved #me

Men, like planets, have both a visible and invisible history. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#every #his #own #pace #varies

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history. ↗

— Allen Tate

#cannot #confederate #connected #connection #dead

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. ↗

— Allen Tate

#because #cannot #even #failure #fictitious

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#according #contemplative #day #depths #each