Llewelyn Powys quotes
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“No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.”
-- Llewelyn PowysSource : Llewelyn Powys (1961). “Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings”
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“A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.”
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“Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.”
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“The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.”
-- Llewelyn PowysSource : Llewelyn Powys (1961). “Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings”
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“The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.”
-- Llewelyn PowysSource : Llewelyn Powys (1935). “Damnable Opinions”
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Source : Aeschylus, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1970). “Oresteia”, p.50, Univ of California Press
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“When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.”
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“We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!”
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