Wisdom Quotes — page 7

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies; but he cannot wholly escape their influence.

The only effect which I know to have been produced by them, was that Carlyle, then living in a secluded part of Scotland, read them in his solitude, and saying to himself (as he afterwards told me) "here is a new Mystic," inquired on …

The animal kingdom has been reared in a gory cradle.

O, my son's my son till he gets him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all her life.

The charge is prepar'd, the lawyers are met, The judges all ranged,—a terrible show!

Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

Says a writer whom few know, "Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring …

Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.

The manufactures of Iron are entitled to pre-eminent rank.

I am immortal! I know it! I feel it! Hope floods my heart with delight! Running on air mad with life dizzy, reeling, Upward I mount, — faith is sight, life is feeling, Hope is the day-star of might!

To Whom the Mornings stand for Nights, What must the Midnights – be!

To serve Armenia is to serve the Civilization.

The doctrine of Shakespeare, where it is not vaguer, is darker in its implication of injustice, in its acceptance of accident, than the impression of the doctrine of Æschylus.

The sunshine of the morning Is abroad upon the hills, With the singing of the green-wood leaves, And of a thousand rills.

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

The obstinancy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinancy of folly and inanity.

Pope abounds in quotable things, chiefly from his habit of making every line rest on its own merits—a circumstance that accounts, in its turn, for the strong resemblance his couplets bear to each other.

Force is not a fact at all, but an idea embodying what is approximately the fact.

I drive through the streets, and I care not a d-mn; The people they stare, and they ask who I am; And if I should chance to run over a cad, I can pay for the damage if ever so bad.

It was not her eloquence but her healing of the sick which raised Sharon to such eminence that she promised to become the most renowned evangelist in America. People were tired of eloquence; and the whole evangelist business was limited, …

Arise from my bones, my unknown avenger.

I saw, there was little or no Help to bee exspected from others; but

If it be a matter within our jurisdiction, we are bound by our oaths to judge of it.

The smallest hair hath his shadow.