James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago
Source: Poena Damni The First Death, p. 35, Shoestring Press, 2000.
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago
Zabel Yesayan (1878–1943) Armenian writer
Gini…Khağağutyan Hamar [Woman… For Peace] (1911)
Context: All over the world, and quite independently of each other, there is a growing wish for peace. This idea travels around the world, growing stronger all the time and becomes one irresistable and universal ideal. This is the great hope of people who are weary and dissillusioned by wars between nations and social groups. Both the victors and the defeated need an end to hostilities. [... ] Who destroys the seeds of past antagonisms in the tender mind of a child and prepares it for a bright, infinite peace of soul. It is of course the child's mother. [... ] The backbone of the feminist movement in France is formed by the women who get together to achieve peace through education and this movement also determines the direction taken by feminist movements in other countries, with their various branches and supporters
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Understanding Our Mind (2006) Parallax Press ISBN 978-81-7223-796-7
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Eleven, Spiritual Adventure: Connection to the Source
Herbert Dingle (1890–1978) British astronomer
Preface, page vi https://books.google.com/books?id=hwpKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR6 <br class="br">Relativity for All, London, 1922
“He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.”
Mervyn Peake book Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 2 “The Great Kitchen” (p. 18)
Context: It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Maxims
“She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.”
Henry James book The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors, book VII, ch. I.