Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. […]
We can only cure our tendency downwards by the power that leads upwards… by a total conversion to the divine law. Hierocles Of Alexandria (circa 430 A.D.)
It is right to yield to the truth. Horace (65 B.C.E. – 8 B.C.E.)
Humility may be taken for granted as existing in every sane human being, but it may be that it most truly manifests itself today in the readiness with which we bow to new truths as they come from the scholars, the teachers, to whom the inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809 – 1894)
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch… you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809 – 1894)
What man is there of you, whom if his son asks for bread, will he give him a stone. Jesus Christ (circa 4 B.C.E. – 30 A.D.)
I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. Jesus Christ (circa 4 B.C.E. – 30 A.D.)
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Old Testament (Isaiah 26:3)
When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable. Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859)
The beautiful attracts the beautiful. Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859)
