"...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside to the right hand or left for the precepts and traditions of men - the more instruction and help they afford one another."

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Source : Elias HICKS (1861). “Letters of E. Hicks, including also observations on the slavery of the Africans, etc”, p.46

Elias Hicks

#Teaching Quotes #Men Quotes #Hands Quotes

“It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.”

Source : Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”
“Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.”

Source : Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”
“I really love big scarves. I have a whole bunch.”
“Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.”
“There you are!â€ he shouted at them. â€œFather has half the castle turned out looking for you.â€ â€œUs?â€ Hadrian asked. â€œYes.â€ Fanen nodded. â€œHe wants to see the two thieves in his chambers right away.â€ â€œYou didnâ€™t steal the silver or anything, did you, Royce?â€ Hadrian asked. â€œI would bet it has more to do with your flirting with Lenare this afternoon and threatening Mauvin just to show off,â€ Royce retorted. â€œThat was your fault,â€ Hadrian said, jabbing his finger at him.”
“Great men never require experience.”
“There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.”

Source : "Lifting the Veil". www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2008.
“It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.”

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