"In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency."

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Source : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Machado de Assis, John A. Gledson (1998). “Dom Casmurro”, p.146, Oxford University Press

Machado de Assis

#Party Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty, teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon and the citizen's firearms are indelibly related.”
“Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts.”
“Poetry can magnify experience.”

Source : May Swenson (1971). “More poems to solve”, Atheneum
“A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.”
“The scars of your love remind me of us they keep me thinking that we almost had it all the scars of your love they leave me breathless I can't help feeling we could have had it all”
“An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.”
“I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three Bs: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.”

Source : "Alice's Wonderland" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.
“Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.”

Source : Claude Fayette Bragdon (2005). “Architecture and Democracy”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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