“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 26
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.”
“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”
“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.”
“We preserve the so-called peace of our community by deeds of petty violence every day.”
“To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography.”
“There is more religion in men's science than there is science in their religion.”
“It takes two to speak the truth—one to speak, and another to hear.”
“Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.”
“That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.”
“Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings.”
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.”
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
“Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal.”
“But to act, that each to-morrow finds us further than to-day.”
“Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime.”
“I heard the trailing garments of the Night sweep through her marble halls!”
“I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.”