Abiah Quotes

#1. How glad I am that spring has come, and how it calms my mind when wearied with study to walk out in the green fields and beside the pleasant streams in which South Hadley is rich! ... The older I grow, the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it not so with you? (May 16, 1848 to Abiah Root)

Emily Dickinson

#2. What has been the tale of me? ... (in May 16, 1848 letter to Abiah Root)

Emily Dickinson

#3. What are you reading now? I have little time to read when I am here, but while at home I had a feast in the reading line, I can assure you ... Am not I a pendant for telling you what I have been reading? (May 16, 1848 to Abiah Root)

Emily Dickinson

#4. Hard work is much more important than talent

Carlo Rotella

#5. A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty.

Fernando Botero

#6. I want to know, have you ever seen rain comin down on a sunny day?

Creedence Clearwater Revival

#7. And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.

Chris Bohjalian

#8. Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

William Of Ockham

#9. It was one of those silences that was far more eloquent than words.

Lisa Kleypas