“Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander makes it true.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 131
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.”
“Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.”
“Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.”
“Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.”
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
“And for her eyes: what could such eyes do there But weep, and weep, that they were born so fair?”
“It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words.”
“Writers, believers in words, could not give up words when the going got rough.”
“Why should it be any surprise that people find solace in the most intimate literary genre?”
“Surely losing is one of the most endemic frictions of our journey.”