"Virtue's a stronger guard than brass."

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Source : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.226

Edmund Waller

#Stronger Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Brass Quotes

“There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.”
“I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.”
“Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.”
“God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.”
“I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.”
“We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.”

Source : Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Street Boys”, p.122, Ballantine Books
“No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.”
“The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.”

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