Stephanie Adams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

  • Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

  • When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

  • There is no justice in following unjust laws.

  • My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

  • Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

  • There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

  • You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

  • To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

  • I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

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