A Quote by William C. Bryant
Maidens hearts are always soft: Would that men's were truer!
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If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.
Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.
There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.
God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.
If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.
If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.
If there were a being in the world whose eyes could look into other people's hearts, very few men or women would be able to face up to it.
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
That's mind-blowing to me that people would say that because you have nice things, you're soft. No, you're soft because your culture is soft.
Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?
Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie
In those days, when I was a little kid, I met the truer more authentic people of my life. The men were so pure, strong, honest, and faithful unto death - with an incredible sense of respect for a boss.
They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.
Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.
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