“Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 27
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”
“Build on, and make thy castles high and fair, rising and reaching upward to the skies.”
“Out of the shadows of night the world rolls into light; it is daybreak everywhere.”
“The grave itself is but a covered bridge, leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!”
“Nothing useless is, or low; each thing in its place is best.”
“Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.”
“Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity—but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.”
“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”
“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.”
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”
“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.”
“I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.”
“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”