"There is no nobler profession, nor no greater……" — Laurence Overmire
"There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next."
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31 Quotes by Laurence Overmire
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You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's…
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Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.
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War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than…
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God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.
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History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
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There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
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Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.
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I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow,
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Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language,
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Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life.
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There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to…
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Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more…
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