It was wrong to do this, " said the angel." You should live like a flower, Holding malice like a puppy, Waging war like a lambkin."" Not so, " quoth the man Who had no fear of spirits;" It is only wrong for angels Who can live like the flowers, Holding malice like the puppies, Waging war like the lambkins. Stephen Crane
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare

  2. One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. - Alain De Botton

  3. You are always a little bit wrong - Hank Green

  4. There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey. - Chris Heimerdinger

  5. The universe never complains. When you're wrong or right, She always loves and cares, She always gives and shares. When you get lost she becomes the light, Helps you to find what is right. But she never forgets To show you the light. - Debasish Mridha

More Quotes By Stephen Crane
  1. Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within.

  2. When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.

  3. Tell her this And more, – That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys.

  4. It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.

  5. A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.

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