Quote by Laurence Housman
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodox

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. – Laurence Housman

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It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion – death brought them into harmony. – Laurence Housman

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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. – Laurence Housman

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Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. – Laurence Housman

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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. – George Orwell

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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. – Anita Diament

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. – Francis Bacon

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In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Mans ultimate responsibility is to God alone. – Geoffrey Fisher

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