“Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 77
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”
“Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.”
“Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer.”
“Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing.”
“A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.”
“No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.”
“Human nature with all its infirmities and depravation is still capable of great things.”
“Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory.”
“The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals.”
“Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present generation, to preserve your Freedom!”
“I should prefer the Delights of a Garden to the Dominion of a World.”
“Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.”
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge.”
“The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.”
“Tyranny can scarcely be practised upon a virtuous and wise people.”
“Virtue is the mistress of all things. Virtue is the master of all things.”