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We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary. - [Revolution] We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative. - [Quacks] We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents. - [Government] We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century. - [Ingratitude] We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing. - [Egotism] What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest. - [Humanity] What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant. - [Motive] When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether my discoveries will be read by posterity or by my contemporaries is a matter that concerns them more than me. I may well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God Himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer like myself." - [Genius] In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. - Criticisms on the Principal Italian Writers--Dante [Criticism] Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. - Enigma (last line), "Cut off my head, etc." [Sound] Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. - Enigma--On the Codfish [Fish] The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. - Essay on Athenian Orators [Oratory] Everybody's business is nobody's business. - Essay on Hallam's Constit. History [Business : Proverbs] The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good. - Essay on Horace Walpole [Public Trust] Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors. - Essay--On the Athenian Orators [Conversation] The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. - Essays--Conversation Touching the Great Civil War [Man] A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. - Essays--Moore's Life of Lord Byron [Society] The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth--truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors. - Essays--On the Athenian Orators [Poetry] We hardly know of any instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other. - Frederick the Great [Character] Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. - History (vol. I, p. 20) [Democracy] I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. - History of England (vol. I, ch. I) [History] The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. - History of England (vol. I, ch. II) [Cruelty : Religion] There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. - History of England (vol. I, ch. III, pt. XXXII) [Navy] The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"--"Is it possible?" - History of England (vol. I, ch. IX) [Stupidity] "Sidney Godophin," said Charles (II), "is never in the way and never out of the way." - History of England (vol. I, p. 265, Cabinet Ed.) [Service] Displaying page 5 of 7 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7
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