Bookish quotes (1789 - 1914) @ thelongvictorian.com
My current read. It reminds me of another lovely food quote from Wilkie Collins – this time from The Woman in White:
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Tolstoy’s Rules for life when he was 18 years old. Apparently these 10 were only an excerpt from a longer list. The source is supposedly 1847, from Tolstoy’s Diaries Volume 1: 1847-1894…
I’m reading The Moonstone slowly, but loving it. I think I could read Wilkie Collins for the food quotes alone!
Favourite quotes from Middlemarch by George Eliot “Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.” “One can begin so many things with a new person! – …
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Henry David Thoreau died 154 years ago today, aged 44 (b. 12 July 1817 – d. 6 May 1862). Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, historian ̵…
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Good advice. I’m doin’ my best, Henry ol’ chap – but there’s a lot of ’em and only one of me.
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That beside the futility of attempting to change somebody, if it is not in their nature to change in that way.
Poor Jude. Life somehow got in the way. Jude was the first adult book I ever read. Bromley Public Library. A strange choice really, especially given the ending! Even so, I could tell there was something magical about it – the power of writing and dreams.
The End of the World! (And you thought you’d had a bad day.)
Keep calm, it’s not the end of the world. Oh, it is?! Keep calm anyway.
Moenie hierdie skrywer as vanselfsprekend aanvaar nie, haar boek Middelmarch met sy fiktiewe grense hou jou vasgenael en as of niks anders bestaan behalwe die woorde wat vasgevang word op die papier van die boek. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), one of my favourite writers and poets. Middlemarch...what a novel! Amelia M
Do what you love... the rest will come by itself... don't chase it.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. - Henry David Thoreau
This is a quote by Henry David Thoreau and I think it means that the only truth in life is that we all die. But, when we are near death we should not look back on our lives and wish that we would have lived it better then we did. Thoreau is saying that we should leave the world with no regrets on how we lived our lives.
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Walden Pond, Mass. We saw the "pond" on a family trip, but did not stop and see where Thoreau stayed, etc.