Make something beautiful of your life.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEA beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Geography is destiny.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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And pray, why would this number interest us?” “It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, ‘One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes’.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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