Dante Alighieri
"Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire."
Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, The
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Gerald Early
Gerald Early
"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."
Henry Watton
Henry Watton
"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight."
Robert Frost – life goes on
Robert Frost
"In three words i can sum up everything i have learned about life".
"life goes on".
Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras (1744-1790)
On his deathbed his last words were – “I see that you have made three spelling mistakes.”
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (1856- 1950)
In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.
ATTRIBUTION: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced 1904). Father Keegan, in John Bull’s Other Island, act 4, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 2, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971).
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