“Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Art
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“Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call;
She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Source: The Temple of Fame (1711), Line 513.
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
The Doom of Devorgoil, Bonny Dundee (1830), Chorus.
Hendrik Verwoerd (1901–1966) Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966
“When the mind has grasped the matter, words come like flowers at the call of spring.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 17
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 238.
Oliver Cowdery (1806–1850) American Mormon leader
Cowdery's statement upon requesting rebaptism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Report to Presidents Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards and the Authorities of the Church, (April 5, 1849).
“That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
"A Word More About America" (1885)
Halford E. Luccock (1885–1960) American Methodist minister
… The high-sounding phrase "the American way" will be used by interested groups intent on profit, to cover a multitude of sins against the American and Christian tradition, such sins as lawless violence, teargas and shotguns, denial of civil liberties … There is an obligation resting on us all to dedicate our minds to the hard task of thinking in terms of Christian objectives and values, so that we may be saved from moral confusion.
For never, probably, has there been a time when there was a more vigorous effort to surround social and international questions with such a fog of distortion and prejudices and hysterical appeal to fear. We have touched a new low in a Congressional investigation this Summer, used by some participating in it to whip up fear and prejudice against many causes of human welfare, such as concern for peace and the rights of labor to bargain collectively.
Keeping Life Out of Confusion (1938)
