Quotes · page 16

Mortal! fear no more,— The reign is past of ancient violence; And Jove hath sworn that time shall not deface, Nor death destroy, nor mutability Perplex the truth of love.

In sum, human civilization is the outgrowth of conscious altruism; and the directive Moral Purpose in the world nothing but our dim perception, ever growing through spiritual friction, that we are all bound more and more toward the …

Far may be sought Erst that ye can find So courteous, so kind, As Merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon

For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved, condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of …

Ask me why this flower does show So yellow-green, and sickly too? Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break? I will answer: These discover What doubts and fears are in a lover.

At first it was a lie, then a strong delusion, and at last downright madness.

The first steps of the slaveholder to justify by argument the peculiar instutitions is to deny the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence. He denies that all men are created equal. He denies that he has inalienable rights.

Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh 't is cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches.

The world is the same everywhere.

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes, but its households.

Is it not the larger and the longer hope and interest of America to live as a great partner in... a society of nations, rather than to live a life of isolated prosperity... ?

We can drink till all look blue.

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

It is very silly indeed to build vessels of War so strong as to last a hundred years. They are obsolete in less than ten years.

Nay, come up hither. From this wave-wash'd mound Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me; Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd. Miles and miles distant though the last line be, And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues …

In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which he received them, and listened to their …

Portable Enlightenment Reader, p. 478-479

says he should not, about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not do that which he thinks and says and does.

I am glad I was here. Now I am clear, I am fully clear... All is well; the Seed of God reigns over all and over death itself. And though I am weak in body, yet the power of God is over all, and the Seed reigns over all disorderly spirits.

Self is man's main business; all outside of self is uncertain, all comes from self, all returns to self.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.