Quotes about Balance
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
- Robert Frost
Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
- Henry David Thoreau
The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.
- Henry David Thoreau
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
- Herman Melville
Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.
- JI Packer
Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.
- JI Packer
God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
- John Milton
So shall the world go on, to good malignant, to bad men benign, under her own weight groaning.
- John Milton