E.S. Russell Quotes
Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.
A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?
An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.
Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.
Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.
The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.
Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.
My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.
But if you kept thinking about a fight you’d lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.
I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.
Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness.
I do think there's something when you have an unbroken day, and it feels like you and your attention can just be together like birds again and you can actually think and dream a little.
Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear.
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.
I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father sees you, how strong and necessary he thinks you are.
I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do. So, it's usually not too, too hard.
