“Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 42
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“We have been in the mountain of moral and ethical relativism long enough.”
“But oh! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
“I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own.”
“Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold a sheep-hook.”
“So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, through the dear might of him that walked the waves.”
“These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee, I mean to live.”
“Till old experience do attain to something like prophetic strain.”
“The oracles are dumb; no voice or hideous hum runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.”
“I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion.”
“I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.”
“And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.”
“We are all too prone to wander from ourselves, to affect Europe, and watch her frowns and smiles.”
“Are we indignant? Alarmed? Do we feel jeopardized? No; helped, braced, concentrated, rather.”
“In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.”
“He knew that an apple should not be plucked while it is green.”