Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.
Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
She who means no mischief does it all.
Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.
Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!
Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.