#low

We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#crises #does #ebb #flow #god

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#despises #diverted #entertain #fellows #i

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#his #ignorance #man #pillow #rest

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#follow #laws #make #way #world

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#assistance #cannot #corrosive #man #produce

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#arts #because #becomes #images #into

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#been #egoism #future #god #hidden

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#believe #between #built #evil #follower

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? ↗

— James Montgomery

#blue #came #dazzling #flower #hue

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

#careful #conventional #depth #i #i am