Charles Hamilton Aide quotes

“I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.”
-- Charles Hamilton Aide

Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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“Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River; We listened to the landler-tune, We watched the moonbeams quiver.”
-- Charles Hamilton Aide

Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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“When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody”
-- Charles Hamilton Aide

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“Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.”

“I say that they can be solved; there is no problem that cannot be, but faith is necessary. Think of the faith I had to have eighteen years ago, a single man on a lonely path. Yet I have come to leadership of the German people... Life is hard for many, but it is hardest if you are unhappy and have no faith. Have faith. Nothing can make me change my own belief.”

“Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)”

“The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'”

“We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....”

“Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.”

“There's a fire starting in my heart”

“Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.”

“Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.”

“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”