“When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsLooksMayExistenceCareersCrimeCircumstancesDown AndLuckDisasterDullFollyMisfortunesStrokesNew LifeIncidentsShatteredHumdrum Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.” LooksCountryEyeLandMountainBlueExpectedLovelyRuinsDullDisappointedValleysEnteringSweetestSceneryBohemia Book:Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff Source: Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
“In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the violet looks.” LooksEyeBlueWoodsBranchesDullSunshineGrayShowersVioletBudBlue Eyes Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier