Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 160
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“I thought of London spread out in the sun, / Its postal districts packed like squares of wheat.”
“But superstition, like belief, must die, / And what remains when disbelief has gone?”
“Hatless, I take off / My cycle-clips in awkward reverence.”
“The Simple Life is the last refuge of complicated and restless souls.”
“The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.”
“I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”
“A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.”
“In a tangle of duties a man must seize the solitary clear one.”
“Civilisation wins because it is a world-wide league; its enemies fail because they are parochial.”
“Though nature is wasteful of material things, there is no waste of spirit.”
“Truth's like a dollar-piece, it's got two sides, and both are wanted to make it good currency.”
“There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.”
“He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.”
“We had our pride shattered, and without humility there can be no humanity.”