“Undoubtedly some men are more gifted than others, and are marked out for more studious lives.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 64
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods.”
“He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may.”
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what's a heaven for?”
“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? / Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
“I find earth not gray but rosy; / Heaven not grim but fair of hue.”
“I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.”
“When the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.”
“'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”
“Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.”
“A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.”
“He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.”
“In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.”
“There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.”