“Be mine that silent calm repast, A conscience cheerful to the last: That tree which bears immortal fruit, Without a canker at the root; That friend which never fails the just, When other friends desert their trust.” LastsFailingTreeMinesBearsConscienceRootsSilentFruitCalmDesertImmortalCheerful Book:The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton Source: The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton
“Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.” PeopleKnowsFeelingsHappensLyingKnow HowFailingHatredSilentMannersGood TimesCoveredHostGuestsProvokingWearyConcealedBreedingGood BreedingCovered Up Author:Anton Chekhov
“Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man.” MenSpiritUnderstandingVirtueFailingConflictProveSilentEvery ManPeculiarMasterySpirit Of God Author:Friedrich Schleiermacher