"For man may pious texts repeat, And yet……" — Thomas Hood
"For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat"
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Thomas Hood
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69 Quotes by Thomas Hood
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Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he…
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O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
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How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.
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The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations
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I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.
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There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the…
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And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the…
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Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!
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Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic…
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Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
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Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
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Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
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More Inward Quotes
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one of 476 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity…
— Deepak Chopra
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Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed…
— John Stuart Mill
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It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in.…
— Colman McCarthy
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
— Bertrand Russell
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A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it…
— Khalil Gibran
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Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar…
— Elizabeth Carter
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