#pear

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#born #consciousness #desired #desires #dreams

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#after #age #country #emerges #how

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#before #courage #difficulties #disappear #into

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Jack Adams

#battle #camp #harbor #midway #pearl

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#appear #center #children #complete #embraces

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#applies #body #cannot #fail #fear

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision. ↗

— Sholem Asch

#country #experience #far #illness #into

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#appear #blow #colonial #colonialism #death

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. ↗

— Benjamin Banneker

#courage #despair #difficulties #easy #lose

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#banned #because #been #bees #disappeared