Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hosti

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. – Matthew Arnold

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When a bonsai stops growing, you know its dead. – Japanese Proverb

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Enough shovels of earth — a mountain. Enough pails of water — a river. – Chinese Proverb

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Every winner has scars. – Herbert N. Casson

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. – John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929

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