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Never be surprised at the crumbling of an idol or the disclosure of a skeleton


John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

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EDWARD GREY If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY