Vladimir Korolenko famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.
-- Vladimir Korolenko

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Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terrorâ€™s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eaglesâ€™ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem! With dazzling pomp descending angels sung Good will and peace to men, to God due praise, Who on the errand of salvation sent Thee, Son Beloved! of plural Unity Essential part, made flesh that mad'st all worlds.
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.
We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Vladimir Korolenko famous quotes

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