Percy Wynham Lewis Famous Quotes



Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.


Percy Wynham Lewis Quotations






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"Each of us, as members of the Body of Christ, has been given at least one spiritual gift. Besides this, there are the natural abilities with which God has endowed us. He intends these to primarily be used for the edification of the Body of believers. There is no such thing as a private gift (Rom. 126-8)."
Bruce Kemper

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
G K Chesterton

"A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Sir Arnold Bax

Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway

Children are a poor man's wealth.
Danish proverb

"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology)"
Socrates

"The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh