#ow

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away. ↗

— Aeschylus

#alas #away #compare #dash #fortunate

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain. ↗

— Aeschylus

#cleanse #course #flow #hand #hasten

Excessive fear is always powerless. ↗

— Aeschylus

#always #excessive #fear #powerless

I know how men in exile feed on dreams. ↗

— Aeschylus

#exile #feed #how #i #know

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#achieves #direct #direct result #fails #his

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. ↗

— Russell Baker

#insists #longer #loves #misery #nowadays

Time as he grows old teaches all things. ↗

— Aeschylus

#grows #old #teaches #things #time

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands. ↗

— David R. Brower

#cold #grows #hands #hold #how

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ↗

— Aesop

#ever #how #kindness #matter #small

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#false #impossible #knows #make #port