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A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy? - [Democracy] A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity. - [Poets] A sneer is the weapon of the weak. - [Sneer] All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion; and it is on the quality, of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. - [Government] An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. - [Reason] And blessed are the horny hands of toil. - [Toil] As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new,--and near the end The milestones into headstones change:-- 'Neath every one a friend. - written on his 68th birthday [Grave] Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius. - [Attention] Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles. - [God] Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. - [Conversation] Children are God's apostles, day by day sent forth to preach of love and hope and peace. - [Children] Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman. - [Democracy] Communism means barbarism. - [Communism] Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. - [Criticism] Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. - [Compromise] Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. - [Human Nature] Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. - [Creativity] Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. - [Democracy] Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation. - [Enthusiasm] Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy. - [Evil] Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next. - [Faith] Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no. - [Fanaticism] Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid. - [Fashion] Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking. - [Fastidiousness] Fate loves the fearless. - [Fate] Displaying page 1 of 11 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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