“The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 85
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.”
“The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on.”
“Iago's soliloquy—the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful it is!”
“O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.”
“Unchanged within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt.”
“Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.”
“Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison!”
“Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever—unread.”
“Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are.”
“Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots.”
“After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.”
“I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full.”
“The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.”
“The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man.”