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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] 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] In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing. - [Names] It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller. - [Greatness] Displaying page 2 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5
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