“Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.”
Quotes to Stay Determined · Page 142
Fierce words to fuel your drive and remind you nothing can stop you.
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“Let the People think they Govern and they will be Governed.”
“It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any.”
“A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”
“The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.”
“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
“Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
“Of all the tyrannies on human kind The worst is that which persecutes the mind.”
“Endure the hardships of your present state, Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.”
“All human things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
“A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.”
“Look round the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”
“'Tis not for nothing that we life pursue; It pays our hopes with something still that's new.”
“We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.”
“Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.”
“A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.”
“Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.”