“All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 59
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“Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.”
“It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.”
“It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.”
“Each must in virtue strive for to excel; / That man lives twice that lives the first life well.”
“In things a moderation keep: / Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep.”
“Know when to speak; for many times it brings / Danger to give the best advice to kings.”
“Against diseases here the strongest fence / Is the defensive virtue, abstinence.”
“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
“The British were mostly philistines, and they left behind a heritage of philistinism.”
“I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.”
“All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.”
“God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.”
“Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments.”
“If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.”
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