Maxwell Struthers Burt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You who are born of the hills/ Hill-bred, lover of hills/ Though the world may not you aright/Though your soul be aweary with ill/This will you know above other men/In the hills you will find your peace again.
-- Maxwell Struthers Burt

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Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
-- Maxwell Struthers Burt

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If you cannot hate evil, you cannot love good.
-- Maxwell Struthers Burt

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This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common 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.
When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

Maxwell Struthers Burt famous quotes

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