Joseph Malins famous quotes

Better guide the young than reclaim them when old For the voice of true wisdom is calling "To rescue the fallen is good, but tis best To prevent other people from falling" Better close up the source of temptation and crime Than deliver from dungeon or gallery Better put a strong fence round the top of the cliff Than an ambulance down in the valley.
-- Joseph Malins

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It's plain that a fence is of no consequence, If the ambulance works in the valley.
-- Joseph Malins

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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.

I get to keep you,” he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?” I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. “Not here. I can’t take much more, Pagan. I’m only so strong,” he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. “You’re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.” I heard a touch of humor in his voice. “It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.

I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

Hello Rush," she said, breaking the silence. The sound of her voice almost sent me to my knees. God, I'd missed her voice. "Blaire," I managed to say, terrified that I'd scare her away just by speaking.

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.