“The practice of truth is the most profitable reading of it.”
Quotes for When You Need Hope · Page 50
Quotes to nurture your hope and remind you that better days are ahead.
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“For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman.”
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
“I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality.”
“Love is a circle that doth restless move / In the same sweet eternity of love.”
“Art quickens nature; care will make a face; / Neglected beauty perisheth apace.”
“Who with a little cannot be content, / Endures an everlasting punishment.”
“Let moderation on thy passions wait; / Who loves too much, too much the lov'd will hate.”
“Like will to like, each creature loves his kind; / Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.”
“Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all / Is, when love's honey has a dash of gall.”
“In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, / Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.”
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”
“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
“Love seems inevitable, necessary, as normal and as easy a process as respiration.”
“I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.”
“The questioning of linguistic conventions is one of the main duties of what we call literature.”
“All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.”
“Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart!”
“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.”