Quotes to Stay Determined · Page 168

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“That great disaster is a symbol to us to remember the big things of life and to forget the small things. We have thought too much of the small things.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Every little thing counts in a crisis and we want our weight felt and our voice heard in quarters which are for the avoidance of world conflict.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation, — a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth.”

— George MacDonald

“Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.”

— George MacDonald

“You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.”

— George MacDonald

“It is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence.”

— George MacDonald

“In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.”

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

“But God laughs at the prayers we make to him to avert public misfortunes, when we do not oppose what is being done to bring them about.”

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

“Let us not believe that our soul is a portion of the divine nature, as some philosophers have dreamed. God is not a whole that can be shared out.”

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

“The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe things because we want them to be so and not because we have seen them for what they are.”

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

“Life is all a variorum, We regard not how it goes; Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose.”

— Robert Burns

“It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause And bide by the buff and the blue.”

— Robert Burns

“A good life is a main argument.”

— Ben Jonson

“It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.”

— Ben Jonson

“Though the most be players, some must be spectators.”

— Ben Jonson

“I never thought an angry person valiant: Virtue is never aided by a vice.”

— Ben Jonson

“A cripple in the way out-travels a footman or a post out of the way.”

— Ben Jonson

“While Memory watches o'er the sad review Of joys that faded like the morning dew.”

— Thomas Campbell

“Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!”

— Thomas Campbell

“Can all that optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow?”

— Thomas Campbell

“Angel of life! thy glittering wings explore Earth's loneliest bounds, and Ocean's wildest shore.”

— Thomas Campbell

“A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.”

— Walter de la Mare

“Some one came knocking At my wee, small door; Some one came knocking, I’m sure—sure—sure.”

— Walter de la Mare

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