“A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 69
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“The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is.”
“He wanted to be a passenger on anything that was going anywhere, but most of all on a ship.”
“The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?”
“Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective.”
“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.”
“We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.”
“'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.”
“Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name?”
“What potent spirit guides the raptur'd eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity?”
“The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh'd — till woman smiled.”
“Oh leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!”
“Every truth—if it really is truth—presents itself as universal, even if it is not the whole truth.”
“Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free.”
“Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.”
“The universal call to holiness is closely linked to the universal call to mission.”