Rekindling: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases

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Icon Group International, Incorporated, Dec 19, 2008 - 35 pages
Familiar Quotations RejuvenatingPolitics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.ndash;Albert EinsteinFor the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.ndash;Kathe KollwitzRejuvenating ndash; InvigorateThis sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.ndash;Martin Luther King, Jr.Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.ndash;Henry MillerRejuvenating ndash; RefreshmentTo sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.ndash;Jane AustenThe repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.ndash;Gaston BachelardTo look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.ndash;Margaret Fairless BarberThe tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.ndash;Thomas JeffersonWhatever your occupation may be and however crowded your hours with affairs, do not fail to secure at least a few minutes every day for refreshment of your inner life with a bit of poetry.ndash;Charles Eliot NortonSunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating. There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.ndash;John Ruskin

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