Eric Rucker Eddison famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.
-- Eric Rucker Eddison

#Nature #Ambition #Men
He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.
-- Eric Rucker Eddison

#Kings #Powerful #Psychology
The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone
-- Eric Rucker Eddison

#Purpose #World #Harvest
Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! he payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?
-- Eric Rucker Eddison

#Giving Up #Winning #Thinking
The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.
-- Eric Rucker Eddison

#Past #Years #Memorial

Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.
Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.
We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

Eric Rucker Eddison famous quotes

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