“The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 30
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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything — other people, trees, clouds.”
“You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace.”
“Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.”
“Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right.”
“Is it possible to believe we could have a god without making use of him?”
“They more adeptly bend the willow's branches who have experience of the willow's roots.”
“To him there seem to be a thousand bars, and out beyond these bars exists no world.”
“He brings hidden things out of the light of his own being into the light of ours.”
“A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.”
“To speak arrogantly is like an abscess: a herb that makes the stomach sick.”
“It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.”
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