“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 74
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“Partial freedom seems to me a most invidious mode of slavery.”
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”
“Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.”
“Men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
“Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection.”
“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.”
“Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.”
“A consistent man believes in Destiny — a capricious man in Chance.”
“I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.”
“Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”
“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”
“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
“What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.”