"silence is not weakness and decency is not…" — Arthur Machen

"silence is not weakness and decency is not pride"

— Arthur Machen

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22 Quotes by Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life,…
For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and…
Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the…
If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often…
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many…
It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a…
Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to…
The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never…
For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to…
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly…
In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

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More Decency Quotes

This quote is filed under Decency Quotes, one of 286 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. — Aeschylus
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any… — Danny Boyle
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy. — James L. Brooks
Morals are private. Decency is public. — Rita Mae Brown
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is… — Pablo Casals
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes… — Carl Sagan
The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure… — George Meany
We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these… — George S. Patton
Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime. — Robert A. Heinlein
The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient. — Robert Breault

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