“But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, half dust, half deity, alike unfit to sink or soar.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 48
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“No words suffice the secret soul to show, for truth denies all eloquence to woe.”
“Better to sink beneath the shock than moulder piecemeal on the rock.”
“It ceased, and then it came again, the sweetest song ear ever heard.”
“There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.”
“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
“Table talk and lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.”
“Mothers' arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.”
“A good mayor is a good thing. Are you afraid of the good you can do?”
“For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.”
“Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.”
“Life has become a bitter drink to me, and yet I must take it like medicine, slowly, drop by drop.”