Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 166

Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.

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“It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.”

— Ben Jonson

“Though the most be players, some must be spectators.”

— Ben Jonson

“I never thought an angry person valiant: Virtue is never aided by a vice.”

— Ben Jonson

“He that fears death, or mourns it, in the just, Shows of the resurrection little trust.”

— Ben Jonson

“A cripple in the way out-travels a footman or a post out of the way.”

— Ben Jonson

“While Memory watches o'er the sad review Of joys that faded like the morning dew.”

— Thomas Campbell

“Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!”

— Thomas Campbell

“Angel of life! thy glittering wings explore Earth's loneliest bounds, and Ocean's wildest shore.”

— Thomas Campbell

“A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.”

— Walter de la Mare

“For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.”

— Walter de la Mare

“Some one came knocking At my wee, small door; Some one came knocking, I’m sure—sure—sure.”

— Walter de la Mare

“Softly along the road of evening, In a twilight dim with rose, Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew Old Nod, the shepherd, goes.”

— Walter de la Mare

“"Is anybody there?" said the Traveler, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor.”

— Walter de la Mare

“The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is…”

— Louis Pasteur

“Here is an infusion of organic matter, as limpid as distilled water, and extremely alterable. It has been prepared to-day. To-morrow it will contain animalculae, little…”

— Louis Pasteur

“No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves.”

— Louis Pasteur

“Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.”

— Louis Pasteur

“Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?”

— Louis Pasteur

“Certain details will age, as do the fashions of another time, but the foundation, the method, constitute one of those great aspects of the human mind, the majesty of which is only…”

— Louis Pasteur

“God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our…”

— Louis Pasteur

“Young men, have confidence in those powerful and safe methods, of which we do not yet know all the secrets.”

— Louis Pasteur

“In judging policies we should consider the results that have been achieved through them rather than the means by which they have been executed.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Whenever men are not obliged to fight from necessity, they fight from ambition; which is so powerful in human breasts, that it never leaves them no matter to what rank they rise.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“It was the verdict of ancient writers that men afflict themselves in evil and weary themselves in the good, and that the same effects result from both of these passions.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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