"Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments."

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Source : Bryan Waller Procter (1857). “Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed”, p.218

Bryan Procter

#Grief Quotes #Band Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.”
“One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.”
“...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.”
“Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.”
“Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.”
“When we ponder His voluntary atonement, any sense of sacrifice on our part becomes completely overshadowed by a profound sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving Him.”
“William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.”
“We're not earthly beings any moreâ€¦ we're cosmic beings.”

Source : Tape recording to Joe Romersa, 1992.

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