“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric;
out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”
― William Butler Yeats
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
on the foolish and the dead
The imputation of inconsistency is one to which ... every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The
foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
( and essay on "Abraham Lincoln",
published
1864–1865, by James Russell Lowell)
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I love to collect thoughts. I would love to collect some of yours, if they are mindful and respectable.
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I love to collect thoughts. I would love to collect some of yours, if they are mindful and respectable.