#tho

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but "show your faith by your works," that God may bless you. It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#faith

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#astray #completely #conjecture #contact #enterprise

Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us? Brought peace! ↗

— Graham Chapman

#romans #education

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that. ↗

— Rory Cochrane

#disaster #i #like #negative #negative thoughts

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#bum #doing #ever #get #going

I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#across #always #appreciate #because #come

Have faith in the universe and its capability to lead you to the path of abundance. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#free-spirit #free-thought #madness #dreams

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#early #early life #imprint #influence #leave

In the balance of love and loss, it was love that made me struggle to… Breathe. ↗

— Rebecca Donovan

#breathing #emma-thomas #loss #love #reason-to-breathe