Laurence Binyon famous quotes

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Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
-- Laurence Binyon

#Years #Age #Weary
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
-- Laurence Binyon

#Morning #Years #Age
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.
-- Laurence Binyon

#Thanksgiving #Mother #Children
We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday â€” the things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire ourselves in turn.
-- Laurence Binyon

#Race #Yesterday #Inspire
We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.
-- Laurence Binyon

#Soul #May #Empty
We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future.
-- Laurence Binyon

#Trouble #Times Of Trouble #Bewilderment
Two children, all alone and no one by, Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet Dance sedately; face to face they gaze, Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure.
-- Laurence Binyon

#Children #Eye #Two
the little street Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.
-- Laurence Binyon

#Shy #Littles #Retiring

I always thought the name of Utahâ€™s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word â€œdesert.â€ But no, Deseret is the â€œland of the honeybee,â€ according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.
I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
Hope is a song in a weary throat.
Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

Laurence Binyon famous quotes

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