“But oh! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 19
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“I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own.”
“Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold a sheep-hook.”
“So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, through the dear might of him that walked the waves.”
“Till old experience do attain to something like prophetic strain.”
“The oracles are dumb; no voice or hideous hum runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.”
“I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion.”
“I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.”
“And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.”
“We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them.”
“We are all too prone to wander from ourselves, to affect Europe, and watch her frowns and smiles.”
“Are we indignant? Alarmed? Do we feel jeopardized? No; helped, braced, concentrated, rather.”
“In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.”
“But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”
“Seek the truth and the Kingdom of God, and the rest will come of itself.”
“God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.”
“Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.”
“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”
“Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well.”
“I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.”
“It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me.”
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