Lives of Wives (London: Cassell, 1939)
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Source: I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
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“Quiet Spaces
We had gone far enough together to listen easily in the quiet spaces.”

Report on the Activities of the Council of People’s Commissars (24 January 1918); Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 459-61.
1910s

“Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.”
Source: Rebel Angels

“We shall now seek that which we shall not find”

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”

“We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”
Act IV
Uncle Vanya (1897)

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 95.

The Poverty of Historicism (1957) Ch. 29 The Unity of Method
Context: If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.