“The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 53
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor.”
“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.”
“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”
“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us.”
“Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.”
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
“Power pleases the violent and proud: wealth delights the placid and the timorous.”
“Happiness must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.”
“Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.”
“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”
“Discretion is a perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.”
“Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.”
“Death only closes a man's reputation, and determines it as good or bad.”