Quote by Laurence Housman
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a

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

Other quotes by Laurence Housman

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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Religion
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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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Trust
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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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Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken. – Lemuel K. Washburn

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One persons religion is another persons cult. – Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Religion

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, wheres the harm? September 11th changed all that. – Richard Dawkins

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Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Religion

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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. – Adam Clarke

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