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Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon. - [Democracy] Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom. - [Despotism] Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. - [Style] Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. - [Historians] Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. - [Future] Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace. - [Experience] Falsehood is for a season. - [Falsehood] Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout. - [Fame] Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best. - [Fame] Familiarities are the aphides that imperceptibly suck out the juice intended for the germ of love. - [Familiarity] Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. - [Fancy] Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love. - [Friendship] Goodness does not more certainly make men happy, than happiness makes them good. We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once; while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual. - [Goodness] Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. - [Greatness] Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable. - [Greatness] Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony. - [Harmony] He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. - [Ridicule] Hope is the mother of faith. - [Hope] How sweet and sacred idleness is! - [Idleness] I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a book which to say nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence. - [Bible] I feel I am growing old for want of somebody to tell me that I am looking as young as ever. Charming falsehood! There is a vast deal of vital air loving words. - [Age] I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer than the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian. - [Music] I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration. - [Toleration] If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius. - [Falsehood] In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practised to love their neighbor. - [Practice] Displaying page 2 of 6 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6
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