78 quotes found
“Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself to keep one's head above the accumulations the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over steadily almost irresistibly l...”
“The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.”
“What I remember most clearly is how it felt. I’d just finished painting a red fire engine-like the one I often walked past near my grandparents’ house. Suddenly the teachers, whose names I've long ...”
“Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.”
“His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.”
“The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.”
“The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.”
“Then out spake brave Horatius The captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And ...”
“Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself to keep one's head above the accumulations the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over steadily almost irresistibly like f...”
“I have been deep in Plato, Aristotle, and Theocritus ever since I left home, and admiring more and more every day the powers of that mighty language which is incomparably the best vehicle both for ...”
“What an incalculable debt do we owe to that little speck of land, Greece.—The principles of taste, the finest models of composition, the doctrines and the glorious examples to which we owe politica...”
“As free constitutions are the strongest supports of governments, social order is the best safeguard of freedom. Liberty has no enemies so pernicious as those misguided friends whose ardour in her c...”
“To have been a Sovereign, yet the champion of liberty,—a revolutionary leader, yet the supporter of social order, is the peculiar glory of William. Till his accession the British Constitution was i...”
“It is surely delightful, Sir, to look forward to that period when a series of liberal and prudent measures shall have delivered islands, so highly favoured by the bounty of Providence, from the cur...”
“Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war,And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.”
“Oh! wherefore come ye forth, in triumph from the North,With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red?And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout?And whence be the grapes of th...”
“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”
“Soon fades the spell, soon comes the night:Say will it not be then the same,Whether we played the black or white,Whether we lost or won the game?”
“Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.”
