Affliction Quote by Laurence Sterne

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

— Thomas a Kempis

“Our hearts get hardened to the ways of the world, and we tend to forget that often our day is filled with companionship with…

— Patrick Davis

A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still…

— William Wordsworth

“Why does a heart wear its eyes into hell like slivers of false sunshine”

— Fanny Howe

In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and…

— Alexander MacLaren

In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of…

— George Santayana

“The famous pastor in Scotland known as the prophet of Dundee44 once wrote: “For every time you look to men, look ten times to…

— Greg Gordon

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost…

— Gerald Vann

How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building…

— Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

— John Quincy Adams