"Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction."

-- Tryon Edwards

#Wise Quotes #Men Quotes #Grieving Quotes

“If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.”
“You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.”
“Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.”
“You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.”

Source : Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.97, A&C Black
“Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.”
“My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.”
“Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light.”

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