“As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.” LongEarthMankindMessagesFairsWindowMarkSecureBlessGuestsBoresDoveRelicsArk Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with Biographical and Critical Notices, Edited by Ludwig Gantter Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with Biographical and Critical Notices, Edited by Ludwig Gantter
“Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.” MenWellsFeelingsEarthCultureInformationActivityUselessBoresHumaneScrap Book:Aims of Education Source: Aims of Education
“If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.” IfsThinkingWayShouldMadeBookHomeBodyEarthDiesSunForeverRichAirFieldsFlowerRiversEnglandCornersDustBreathingBoresConcealed Author:Rupert Brooke