Adam Lindsay Gordon quotes
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“There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.”
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“Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.”
-- Adam Lindsay GordonSource : 'Ye Wearie Wayfarer' 'Fytte 8'
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“I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.”
-- Adam Lindsay GordonSource : Adam Lindsay Gordon (1912). “The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon: Edited with Introduction, Notes & Appendixes, by Frank Maldon Robb”
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“Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.”
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“In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.”
-- Adam Lindsay GordonSource : Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”
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“For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain”
-- Adam Lindsay GordonSource : Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”
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“I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.”
-- Adam Lindsay GordonSource : The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).
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“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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“It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.”
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Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.12, Penguin
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