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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
Wings of angels, tears of saints
won't bring you back to me
(about her son's suicide)
(He will come back read more
Wings of angels, tears of saints
won't bring you back to me
(about her son's suicide)
(He will come back to her.. the soul is
deathless).
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to read more
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
