David McCord Quotes

#1. The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

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#2. The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.

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#3. A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

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#4. A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

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#5. But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

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#6. Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.

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#7. Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

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#8. March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.

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#9. The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

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#10. Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.

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#11. Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.

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#12. Books fall open, you fall in.

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