From J.R.R. Tolkien: ‘Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”
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Quote of the day 12/23/23
From J.R.R. Tolkien: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Quote of the day 12/14/23
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
Quote of the day 12/13/23
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “The formula ‘Two and two make five’ is not without its attractions.”
Quote of the day 12/12/23
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.”
Quote of the day 12/11/23
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “To live without Hope is to Cease to live.”
Quote of the day 12/10/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”
Quote of the day 12/09/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.”
Quote of the day 12/08/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”
Quote of the day 12/07/23
From Leo Tolstoy: ‘Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.”