Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
More Quotes from Thornton Niven Wilder:
The dead dont stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth ... and the ambitions they had ... and the things they suffered ... and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth thats the way I put it weaned away.Thornton Niven Wilder
I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
Thornton Niven Wilder
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
Thornton Niven Wilder
The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alternative.
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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