John Quotes
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.
Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.
What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?
What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?
Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.
O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.
I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.
By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.
It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship
While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points
The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity.
Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.
Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was
The match has become quite unpredictable, but it still looks as though Arsenal will win the cup
Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.
