Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
E. B. WHITEIt is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
More E. B. White Quotes
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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