#sg

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#brief #dead #even #ever #fear

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#disgust #hatred #immortal #indifference #indulgence

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. ↗

— John Ruskin

#child #desires #disgraced #dislikes #education

People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world -- even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule? ↗

— Ellen Wittlinger

#change

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#disguise #war

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#affection #been #caught #class #considered

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#each #jesus #them

I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#hard #i #i think #lightweight #must

People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided. ↗

— James Daly

#incredibly #internet #misguided #people #say

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. ↗