"Concealment is the foe of tranquility."

-- Fanny Burney

#Tranquility Quotes #Foe Quotes

“I believe that I definitely wasn't given this voice just to sing. I think it was given to me for a bigger purpose.”
“The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.”
“I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.”

Source : W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)”, p.193, Oxford University Press
“And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.”
“He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.”
“My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God”
“Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.”
“I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.”

Source : James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”

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