#surely

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#choice #desire #doing #good #happiness

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. ↗

— Eugene Forsey

#future #god #greatest #hidden #i

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. ' ↗

— Annie Lennox

#feminist #free #i #inherited #morally

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#being #created #day #exist #god

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#lands #longer #may #moon #nothing

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#conceal #game #like #our #play

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#collar #fact #hair #him #his

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#ourselves #surely #then #unknown

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. ↗

— Henry Miller

#believe #cease #day #gods #men

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. ↗

— Alice Munro

#feel #i #i feel #know #learned