“Regenerative economies that reciprocate the gift are the only path forward.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 24
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“Despite our fears of falling, the gifts of the world stand by to catch us.”
“When we call a place by name it is transformed from wilderness to homeland.”
“To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.”
“A harvest is made honorable when it sustains the giver as well as the taker.”
“Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
“Books are waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.”
“When the People have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.”
“When a person's down in the world, I think an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.”
“Little minds give importance to the man who gives importance to nothing.”
“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”
“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us.”
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.”
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
“Power pleases the violent and proud: wealth delights the placid and the timorous.”