How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else! Richard Le Gallienne More Quotes by Richard Le Gallienne More Quotes From Richard Le Gallienne A woman's beauty is one of her great missions. Richard Le Gallienne womens-beauty missions beauty Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are. Richard Le Gallienne perseverance graduation inspirational Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road. Richard Le Gallienne forever hands promise To all of us the thought of heaven is dear -Why not be sure of it and make it here?No doubt there is a heaven yonder too,But 'tis so far away - and you are near.Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;Men of hereafters talk, and future lives,O love, there is no other life - but here. Richard Le Gallienne doubt men heaven Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world. Richard Le Gallienne cynical agency religion I meant to do my work today Richard Le Gallienne apples butterfly nature On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle. Richard Le Gallienne machines battle fighting There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. Richard Le Gallienne jealousy mean thinking Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters, Richard Le Gallienne gratitude daughter love The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. Richard Le Gallienne smile love-is quiet A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom. Richard Le Gallienne neighbour oblivion We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces. Richard Le Gallienne flower spring song Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill. Richard Le Gallienne hills horse The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, Richard Le Gallienne sentimental wife soul There’s too much beauty upon this earth Richard Le Gallienne lonely earth men Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. Richard Le Gallienne romance hands enemy The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. Richard Le Gallienne space spiritual law We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. Richard Le Gallienne elements imagination perfect Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time. Richard Le Gallienne oats life-is art Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off. Richard Le Gallienne long facts way
