“Freedom's battle, once begun, bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, though baffled oft, is ever won.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 13
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“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth.”
“I'll publish right or wrong: fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
“A man must serve his time to every trade save censure—critics are ready-made.”
“I only know we loved in vain; I only feel—farewell! farewell!”
“What is the end of fame? 'Tis but to fill a certain portion of uncertain paper.”
“Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.”
“Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.”
“No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.”
“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”
“It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.”
“At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue: tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.”
“Hence vain deluding Joys, the brood of Folly without father bred!”
“A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.”
“Methought I saw my late espousèd saint brought to me like Alcestis from the grave.”
“Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!”
“The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest.”
“Privileged classes never give up their privileges without strong resistance.”
“There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.”
“Sometimes, you know, it's necessary to go backward in order to go forward.”
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