"At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes."

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Source : Thomas Hughes (2011). “Tom Brown's School Days”, p.334, The Floating Press

Thomas Hughes

#Kings Quotes #Lying Quotes #Hero Quotes

“Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.”
“My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.”
“We are not thinking machines...”
“If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.”
“If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we find new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.”
“According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.”
“When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.”

Source : "Weegee's story: from the Berinson Collection". Book bediyted by Weegee, Margit Zuckriegl, 1999.
“If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent and exhilarating that you too will suddenly, and always thereafter, believe in monsters.”

Source : Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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