“Against diseases here the strongest fence / Is the defensive virtue, abstinence.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 122
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“When fear admits no hope of safety, then / Necessity makes dastards valiant men.”
“Of all our parts, the eyes express / The sweetest kind of bashfulness.”
“The body sins not, 'tis the will / That makes the action, good or ill.”
“The British were mostly philistines, and they left behind a heritage of philistinism.”
“The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.”
“I never lived, that I remember, what you call a common natural day.”
“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”
“God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.”
“Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments.”
“If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.”
“Always the soul says to us all, Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abide by them in action.”
“'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause — and of obstinacy in a bad one.”
“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”