English Quotes — page 19

Those things, which are experienced to be in their whole nature, or in their most remarkable properties, so contrary to animal life, as in a small quantity to prove destructive to it, are called Poisons: whether they are hurtful by being …

General Lee had not been conquered in battle, but surrendered because he had no longer an army with which to give battle. What he surrendered was the skeleton, the mere ghost of the , which had been gradually worn down by the combined …

We haven't taken Washington, but we've scared Abe Lincoln like hell!

I not only wish them all dead but I wish them all in Hell.

In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled.

God shapes the world by prayer.

Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?

And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.

"And when we die, All’s over that is ours; and life burns on Through other lovers, other lips," said I —"Heart of my heart, our heaven is now, is won!" "We are earth’s best, that learnt her lesson here, Life is our cry. We have kept the …

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer, ... But I guess that was exactly what I did.

I hope we have laid the foundation of an institution which shall combine practical with liberal education, which shall fit the youth of our country for the professions, the farms, the mines, the manufactories, for the investigations of …

The individual is better, society is better, and the state is better, for the culture of its citizens; therefore we desire to extend the means for the culture of all.

I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.

As a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens.

Citizenship by inheritance belongs to none but the children of those Americans, who, having survived the Declaration of Independence, acquired that adventitious character in their own right, and transmitted it to their offspring.

Citizenship is the inheritance of the children of those who have taken part in the late revolution; but this is confined exclusively to the children of those who were themselves citizens.

One idea mastered him — to give Africa to the world.

Lincoln and Douglass; Douglass and Lincoln! May their names ever be welded into one memory in the hearts of every Negro in the land!

Frederick Douglass once said: Any man may say things that are true of Abraham Lincoln, but no man can say anything that is new of Abraham Lincoln. If that were true in the past century, in the early seventies, how much more is it true today

The teacher's equipment gives him an everlasting job. His work is never done. His getting ready for this work is never quite complete.

[P]hilosophy is not a matter for adjustment, as a means, to national requirements, but every nation and individual that cultivates philosophy should aim at having a true philosophy.