Ezra Pound Famous Quotes



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"With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.
Epictetus

What power has law where only money rules.
Gaius Petronius

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults."
Charles Kingsley

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
Aristotle

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
Garth Henrichs

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Reubin Askew

"When the judgement's weak, The prejudice is strong."
Kane O Hara