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A quotation from Jack Vance

Any collocation of persons, no matter how numerous, how scant, how even their homogeneity, how firmly they profess common doctrine, will presently reveal themselves to consist of smaller groups espousing variant versions of the common creed; and these sub-groups will manifest sub-sub-groups, and so to the final limit of the single individual, and even in this single person conflicting tendencies will express themselves.

Jack Vance (1916-2013) American writer [John Holbrook Vance]
The Languages of Pao, ch. 5, epigraph (1958)

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"𝙸 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚖𝚢 𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚊𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍, 𝙸 𝚋𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚗’𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎."

― 𝘚ø𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘒𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘥 (1813 – 1855)

🤗💠🌼🌸🌷💮💜🤍💚💜🤍💚💜🤍💚🌏🧸🟠🔶💛🩵💙🧡🌳🐦🏡🐿️🌊⛲⛵🩷💗💜🤍💚💁‍♀️*"Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy!*Not the sorrow to be taken away!*& joy to be put in its place!*but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy!!*God not only takes away the bitterness!*& gives sweetness in its place!*but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself!"🤗💠🌼🌸🌷💮🌏🧸🟠🔶💛🩵💙🧡🌳🐦🏡🐿️🌊⛲⛵🩷💗💜🤍💚💜🤍💚💜🤍💚💜🤍💚🤗

~ Charles Spurgeon

💜🤍💚💜🤍💚💜🤍💚*"Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy!*Not the sorrow to be taken away!*& joy to be put in its place!*but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy!!*God not only takes away the bitterness!*& gives sweetness in its place!*but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself!"💜🤍💚💜🤍💚💜🤍💚

~ Charles Spurgeon

*~*"Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy!*Not the sorrow to be taken away!*& joy to be put in its place!*but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy!!*God not only takes away the bitterness!*& gives sweetness in its place!*but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself!"*~*

~ Charles Spurgeon

A quotation from Banklsy

Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars and generally is the voice of people who aren’t listened to. Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.

Banksy (b. 1974) England-based pseudonymous street artist, political activist, film director
Banging Your Head Against A Brick Wall (2001)

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A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Let mine not be the saddest fate of all,
   To live beyond my greater self; to see
   My faculties decaying, as the tree
Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall.
   Let me hear rather the imperious call,
   Which all men dread, in my glad morning time,
And follow death ere I have reached my prime,
Or drunk the strengthening cordial of life’s gall.
The lightning’s stroke or the fierce tempest blast
   Which fells the green tree to the earth to-day
Is kinder than the calm that lets it last,
   Unhappy witness of its own decay.
   May no man ever look on me and say,
“She lives, but all her usefulness is past.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1882), “Uselessness,” Maurine and Other Poems (1882 ed.)

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WIST Quotations · Poem (1882), "Uselessness," Maurine and Other Poems (1882 ed.) - Wilcox, Ella Wheeler | WIST QuotationsLet mine not be the saddest fate of all, To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall. Let me hear rather the imperious call, Which all men dread, in my glad morning time, And follow…