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I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#inspirational #symbolic #beauty

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#doubtful #far #fault #federalism #find

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#integrity #may #never #subtlety #will

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman. ↗

— Tim Roth

#cary #cary grant #did #everything #grant

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#conception #consciously #democratic #economic #economic prosperity

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#alienation #alive #anger #because #causes

The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land. ↗

— George Vancouver

#changed #coloured #consequence #falling #into

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#american life #artful #conceived #effect #fulfillment

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#going #hanged #i #much #persons

A few honest men are better than numbers. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#few #honest #honest men #men #numbers