“But youth is as a flowing stream, on whose current the shadow may rest but not remain.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 127
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“The world is as the sea, in whose salt waves, / Like streams, we lose the freshness of our youth.”
“Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell.”
“Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world.”
“Now such an one for daughter Creon had / As maketh wise men fools and young men mad.”
“Forget six counties overhung with smoke, / Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,”
“Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips, / Think but one thought of me up in the stars.”
“Had she come all the way for this, / To part at last without a kiss?”
“Who might have bought a kingdom with a kiss, / Yea, half the world with such a sight as this.”
“Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.”
“Democracy is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law.”
“The proudest human that walks the earth is a free American citizen.”
“The free individual has been justified as his own master; the state as his servant.”
“Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.”
“The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength — and strength alone.”
“I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”