Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.
– Richard Brookhiser
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- Any man’s life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature. – Richard Brookhiser
- Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be. – Christopher Marlowe
- Human thinking can be changed if man is offered the pleasure of money or the sadness of its absence. – Marius Stoicescu
- I am wishing of a memory, where you gave me everything you hadand where I offered you the pieces that were leftof me. – Richard Prez
- A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently. – Richard Brookhiser
- Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice. – Richard Brookhiser
- The towering genius is not apolitical. – Richard Brookhiser
- He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature. – Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics. – Richard Brookhiser
- To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself. – Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it. – Richard Brookhiser
- God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces. – Richard Brookhiser
- She became at once more intimate and more exalted. – Richard Brookhiser
- Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do. – Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles. – Richard Brookhiser
- One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense. – Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring. – Richard Brookhiser
- As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends. – Richard Brookhiser
- Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful. – Richard Brookhiser
- Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix. – Richard Brookhiser
- It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go. – Richard Brookhiser
- Most principles are limp until they are tested. – Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles. – Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own. – Richard Brookhiser
- Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates. – Richard Brookhiser
- She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional. – Richard Brookhiser
- The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs. – Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. – Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln loved other people’s jokes as much as his own. – Richard Brookhiser
- Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts. – Richard Brookhiser
- Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:It is safe, and you can’t get safer than safe. – Jonas Salk
- A safe army is better than a safe border – BR Ambedkar
- Tomorrow will be a better day, we shall be safe …only if we are safe today to reach tomorrow, things would change with a brighter light. – AuliqIce
- A world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live – Serena AnderliniDOnofrio
- There are no safe voyages and no safe ports. – Marty Rubin
- He wondered if it was safe to grin. Very slowly and carefully, he grinned. It was safe. – Douglas Adams
- For a stairs to be safe, every step on that stairs has to be safe! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn’t always guard the gates. – NK Jemisin
- His music was an outlet of that romantic energy and sensitivity. – Kailin Gow