#wilde

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To define is to limit.


Oscar Wilde


#lord-henry-wotton #wilde #wild

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.


Herbert Croly


#atlantic ocean #been #had #land #never

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.


Edith Wharton


#bewildering #critics #invent #knows #others

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.


A. N. Wilson


#advice #ago #am #archbishop #bewildered

She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of her life flickered so faintly that it appeared sufficient to blow at it to extinguish it. Stas understood that death did not have to wait for a third attack to take her and he expected it any day or any hour.


Henryk Sienkiewicz


#death #death-and-dying #disease #malaria #sickness