John Armstrong Quotes

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.

Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.

This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

When you're doing wrong, you're gonna think wrong.

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.

Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped.

The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives.

Autumn ripens in the summer's ray.

If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day.

What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.

To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame.

The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs.

Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.

Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.

We need to be free if we are to love.

How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!

You can't help people that don't want to be helped.

The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.

Our greatest good and what we least can spare is hope.