The worst thing in a democracy – as well as in an individual’s life – is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
Hillary Clinton
1947 –
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Words to live by
The worst thing in a democracy – as well as in an individual’s life – is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
Hillary Clinton
1947 –
The only thing necessary for the triumph of Evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
1729-1797
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
1913-1960
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.
It’s what I’ve never seen before that I recognize.
Diane Arbus
1923-1971
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
Carol Bishop Hipps
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
1819 – 1880
Autumn’s the mellow time.
William Allingham
1824-1889
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
1819 – 1880
My favourite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.
Groucho Marx
1890-1977