#t

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart. ↗

— Eliza Cook

#echoes #heart #how #memory #old

We do not want riches, we want peace and love. ↗

— Red Cloud

#peace #peace and love #riches #want

The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life would suit him - he was, after all, accustomed to governing a large proportion of the known world. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#historical-fiction #humor #life

A world where nothing is had for nothing. ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

#nothing #where #world

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#deathbed #truth #death

Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market. ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

#given #god #grace #knowledge #market

Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition? ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

#i #juxtaposition #know #only #short

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one. ↗

— Brian Clough

#business #i #manager #say #top

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is. ↗

— Juan Cole

#arrest #decision #early #his #how

I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#money #property #men