Quotes
Quotes - Webster
I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exit.
'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,--the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.
Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?
So may you blame some fair and crystal river
For that some melancholic, distracted man
Hath drown'd himself in 't.
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.
Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren,
Since o'er shady groves they hover,
And with leaves and flowers do cover
The friendless bodies of unburied men.
Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.
I saw him now going the way of all flesh.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!
Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.
Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
Thank God! I--I also--am an American!
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,--Independence now and Independence forever.
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
Washington is in the clear upper sky.
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
Sea of upturned faces.
