Quotes of Ezra - somelinesforyou

“ Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. ”

- Ezra

“ Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ”

- Ezra

“ The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension. ”

- Ezra

“ A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. ”

- Ezra

“ Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. ”

- Ezra

“ Pride is concerned with who is right while humility is concerned with what is right. ”

- Ezra

“ A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. ”

- Ezra

“ With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands. ”

- Ezra

“ One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read – what not to see or what not to listen to. ”

- Ezra

“ With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands. ”

- Ezra

“ Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children. ”

- Ezra

“ With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands. ”

- Ezra

“ With this money be sure to buy bulls, rams and male lambs, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and sacrifice them on the altar of the temple of your God in Jerusalem. ”

- Ezra

“ And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. ”

- Ezra Pound

“ Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace. ”

- Ezra Taft Benson

“ My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity. ”

- Ezra

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ PARACELSUS IN EXCELSIS Being no longer human, why should I Pretend humanity or don the frail attire? Men have I known and men, but never one Was grown so free an essence, or become So simply element as what I am. The mist goes from the mirror and I see. Behold! the world of forms is swept beneath Turmoil grown visible beneath our peace, And we that are grown formless, rise above Fluids intangible that have been men, We seem as statues round whose highrisen base Some overflowing river is run mad, In us alone the element of calm. ”

- Ezra

“ Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. ”

- Ezra

“ Rhythm must have meaning. ”

- Ezra

“ The Garden En robe de parade. Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piecemeal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion. ”

- Ezra

“ It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. ”

- Ezra

“ And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. ”

- Ezra

“ L'art Green arsenic smeared on an eggwhite cloth, Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes. ”

- Ezra

“ A person who is happy is not thinking about the past. ”

- Ezra

“ Happiness is the manifestation of confronting only good. ”

- Ezra

“ Makestrong old dreams lest this our world lose heart ”

- Ezra

“ Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace. ”

- Ezra

“ The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. ”

- Ezra

“ While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and count the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful. ”

- Ezra
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