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  1. Ard the Rich @[email protected] ·

    We can learn from the stars
    that black is just
    a stronger white.

    #poetry #aphorism

    #poetry #aphorism
  2. WIST Quotations @[email protected] ·

    A quotation from James Howell

    When Adam delv’d and Eve span,
    Who was then a Gentleman?

    James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
    [compiler]

    More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83593/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #aphorism #class #equality #gentleman #humanity #naturalorder

    #humanity #class #quote #quotes #qotd #equality
  3. WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] ·

    A quotation from Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

    Whatever you think you have to do is simply what you want to do.
     
    [Was Du zu müssen glaubst, ist das, was Du willst.]

    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer
    Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 60 (1880) [tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translation: wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aphorism #compulsion #desire #duty #justification #moralduty #must #obligation #preference #requirement #selfrighteousness #volition #will #wishing #excuse

    #quotes #quote #selfrighteousness #qotd #duty #desire