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“It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.”

Source: Killosophy

“You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you are obligated to make it a tree.That's poem”

May Seems Tree Walking Singing Bird Absurd Desert Pending

Author:Kiki Dimoula

“Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.”

Years May Safe Waste Sight Sacred Green Desert Islands Shelter Pauses Abode Isle

Book:The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]

Source: The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]

“A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?”

Looks May Doe Real Care Artist Company Solitude Lonely Shoulders Admire Desert Real Artists Does He Care

Book:The arts and their mission

Source: The arts and their mission

“There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.”

Ifs May Country Lasts Lost Loses Liberty Desert Deserted Free Country

Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy