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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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‘Cold Comfort Farm’ (1932) ch. 20<br />

7.39 Wolcott Gibbs 1902-58<br />

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.<br />

‘New Yorker’ 28 November 1936 ‘Time...Fortune...Life...Luce’ (satirizing the style <strong>of</strong> ‘Time’ magazine)<br />

7.40 Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931<br />

Your children are not your children.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y are the sons and daughters <strong>of</strong> Life’s longing for itself.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y came through you but not from you<br />

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.<br />

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,<br />

For they have their own thoughts.<br />

You may house their bodies but not their souls,<br />

For their souls dwell in the house <strong>of</strong> tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your<br />

dreams.<br />

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you,<br />

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.<br />

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Prophet’ (1923) ‘On Children’<br />

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better<br />

that you should leave your work and sit at the gate <strong>of</strong> the temple and take alms <strong>of</strong> those who work<br />

with joy.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Prophet’ (1923) ‘On Work’<br />

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.<br />

‘Sand and Foam’ (1926) p. 59<br />

7.41 Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1878-1962<br />

But we, how shall we turn to little things<br />

And listen to the birds and winds and streams<br />

Made holy by their dreams,<br />

Nor feel the heart-break in the heart <strong>of</strong> things?<br />

‘Lament’ (1918)<br />

7.42 Andrè Gide 1869-1951<br />

M’est avis...que le pr<strong>of</strong>it n’est pas toujours ce qui méne l’homme; qu’il y a des actions<br />

dèsintèressèes...Par dèsintèressè j’entends: gratuit. Et que le mal, ce que l’on appelle: le mal, peut<br />

être aussi gratuit que le bien.<br />

I believe...that pr<strong>of</strong>it is not always what motivates man; that there are disinterested actions...By<br />

disinterested I mean: gratuitous. And that evil acts, what people call evil, can be as gratuitous as

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