"How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity,Â born of faith, born of life, born of power!"

-- Smith Wigglesworth

#Men Quotes #Purity Quotes #He Man Quotes

“But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. Still, anything can be endured if all humanity is watching. The martyrs prove it. We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun.”
“The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes, and let us be careful that no just complaint can be made against our stewardship.”
“an ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day ...”

Source : Louise Jordan Miln (2007). “The Green Goddess”, p.33, Library of Alexandria
“I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.”
“I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance. Holding on to a vision invokes the circumstances by which the vision is achieved. Vision is content; material circumstances mere form.”
“He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.”
“The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.”
“Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule.”

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