Quotes with whispers

  • God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
  • The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

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  • Bayard Taylor Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Thomas Fuller Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • C. S. Lewis God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
    The Problem of Pain (1940)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Agnes Repplier In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Audre Lorde The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Aleister Crowley There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: ''More money for more work.''
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Barry Cornwall There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.
    A Sicilian story and Mirandola
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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