“Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion.” GivingWisdomEarthJoyWaterChancePerfectRocksFairsLipsRichesLovelyPearlsOblivionSullenRarityLovely Things Book:Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated
“The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.” PeopleDoeFactsSpiritChanceGrowingFeetFlowerProveLovelyPrizeWeedChances AreFlowers Growing Author:Antonin Dvorak
“O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.” GivingStillsSoulWholeBodyChanceGraceWiseBrokenLovelyGratefulness Author:Sara Teasdale