Quote#Time
All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, — every war; every…
Quote byRufus Choate · 1799–1859
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Power of a State Developed by Mental Culture", an address to the Mercantile Library Association (18 November 1844), published in The Works of Rufus Choate : Memoir, Lectures and Addresses (1862), edited by Samuel Gilman Brown..
English (original)
All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, — every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, — all change, — all permanence, — the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, — all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.
— Rufus Choate
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