13 Oct , 2011
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body. Great short quote and […]
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15 Feb , 2011
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius, The Confucian Analects , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)
15 Feb , 2011
Was all this bloodshed and deceit – from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans – a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made – as it was […]
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15 Feb , 2011
We can have no “50-50” allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. Great short quote and quotation by: Teddy Roosevelt ,
15 Feb , 2011
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. Great short quote and quotation by: Jane Austen , English novelist (1775 – 1817)
15 Feb , 2011
Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only […]
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Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?
15 Feb , 2011
What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french […]
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15 Feb , 2011
When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. Great short quote and quotation by: Rosilind Russell ,
15 Feb , 2011
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir Francis Bacon , English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 – 1626)
15 Feb , 2011
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Great short quote and quotation by: Sir Francis Bacon , English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 – 1626)