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[freemocy]

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." --Groucho Marx

[aswad]

Love: Quotes Khalil Gibran
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

[aswad]

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

(Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)

[aswad]

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

(William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

[Larache4eva]

Love is a cage u get ur self trapped in lol

[RonPrice]

A perspective on plagiarism:

William Hazlitt in his Lectures on the English Poets(1818) wrote that: “The freedom and copiousness with which our most original writers, in former periods, availed themselves of the productions of their predecessors, frequently transcribing whole passages without scruple or acknowledgment, may appear contrary to the etiquette of modern literature.” This transcription without acknowledgment is not surprising given the fact that “at a time when to read and write was of itself an honorary distinction, when learning was almost as great a rarity as genius, and when in fact those who first transplanted the beauties of other languages into their own might be considered as public benefactors, and the founders of a national literature.” Such is one view of plagiarism expressed by an English essayist in 1818. It was a view the poet T.S. Eliot expressed when he was defining a great poet as someone who was not disinclined to steal the words of others and call them his own. Of course in our modern age, in academia, plagiarism has become and has been a sensitive issue. As a teacher of the humanities and social sciences for over three decades the problem of students copying the work of others was an endless concern to both me as a teacher in primary, secondary and post-secondary schools and my students.-Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 30 March 2007.

The arts of painting and poetry are conversant
with the world of thought within us, the world
of sense around us, with what we see and know
and feel intimately. They flow from the sacred
shrine of our own breasts, and are kindled
at the living lamp of nature. But the pulse
of the passions assuredly beat as high,
the depths and soundings of the human heart
were as well understood three thousand or three
hundred years ago, as they are at present:
the face of nature and the human face divine
shone as bright then as they have ever done.
But it is their light, reflected by true genius
on art, that marks out its path before it
and sheds a glory round the Muses' feet
with names blazoned in the very firmament
of reputation and in the remotest elevation
of thought and fancy abstracted from the world
of action to that of contemplation
on the vicissitudes of human life.

Ron Price
31 March 2007