Quotes to inspire and reflect

‘I am half sick of shadows,’ said

 

On either side the river lie

 

Kind hearts are more than coronets,

 

Below the thunders of the upper deep;

 

There hath he lain for ages and will lie

 

One God, one law, one element,

 

Ring out the thousand wars of old,

 

There lives more faith in honest doubt,

 

Ring out the old, ring in the new,

 

So many worlds, so much to do,

 

God’s finger touched him, and he slept.

 

But what am I?

 

So careful of the type she seems,

 

The last red leaf is whirled away,

 

Oh yet we trust that somehow good

 

For words, like Nature, half reveal

 

Let knowledge grow from more to more,

 

To the island-valley of Avilion;

 

That men may rise on stepping-stones

 

The old order changeth, yielding place to new,

 

More things are wrought by prayer

 

So all day long the noise of battle rolled

 

Authority forgets a dying king.

 

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

 

And trust me not at all or all in all.

 

Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable,

 

His honour rooted in dishonour stood,

 

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life,

 

Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

 

He clasps the crag with crookèd hands;

 

O Love, O fire! once he drew

 

For though from out our bourne of time and place

 

Sunset and evening star,

 

‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’

 

Half a league, half a league,

 

For men may come and men may go,

 

I come from haunts of coot and hern,

 

Break, break, break,

 

But O for the touch of a vanished hand,

 

The Pope! How many divisions has he got?

 

The Church’s one foundation

 

There are various forms of production: artillery, automobiles, lorries. You also produce ‘commodities’, ‘works’, ‘products’. Such things are highly necessary. Engineering things. For people’s souls. ‘Products’ are highly necessary too. ‘Products’ are very important for people’s souls. You are engineers of human souls.

 

The two cultures and the scientific revolution.

 

Seal with a righteous kiss

 

The official world, the corridors of power.

 

Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

 

I have more care to stay than will to go.

 

Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day