"The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear."

-- Thomas Merton

#Wisdom Quotes #Passion Quotes #Light Quotes

“If a stock doesnâ€™t act right donâ€™t touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.”
“Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.”

Source : Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York
“Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.”
“I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.”
“Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?”
“No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.”
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.”

Source : 1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.
“Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.”

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