“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn”
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“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn”
“Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter”
“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love”
“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late”
“The first option is almost always covered. That's why the play is designed to create multiple opportunities”
“When earth breaks up and heaven expands, how will the change strike me and you in the house not made with hands?”
“Progress is the law of life, man is not man as yet”
“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure”
“Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain”
“The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest”
“I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle”
“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change”
“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.”
“Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”
“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, alltogether incalculable ”
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays”
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are”
“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music”