Timothy Shay Arthur quotes
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“It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.”
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“No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession.”
-- Timothy Shay ArthurSource : "Grappling with the Monster; Or, The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink" by Timothy Shay Arthur, (Ch. 4), 1877.
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“When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty.”
-- Timothy Shay ArthurSource : Timothy Shay Arthur (1888). “The Wedding Guest: a Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom”
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“It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.”
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“Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old; it is custom which hinders the husband from perceiving the change.”
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“Even the heart in time may grow cold.”
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“A husband and wife should resolve never to wrangle with each other; never to bandy words or indulge in the least ill-humour. Never! I say; NEVER. Wrangling, even in jest, and putting on an air of ill-humour merely to tease, becomes earnest by practice.”
-- Timothy Shay Arthur
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“Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.”
Source : "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.
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“King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.”
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“I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.”
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“The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.”
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“Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.”
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