Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 89
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”
“Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.”
“Times of general calamity and confusion, have ever been productive of the greatest minds.”
“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them, because we hate them.”
“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often to despise what we really fear.”
“Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it.”
“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.”
“When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.”
“Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.”
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!”
“Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.”
“Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
“I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”
“Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!”