“I sing the Man who Judahs Scepter bore
In that right hand which held the Crook before;
Who from best Poet, best of Kings did grow;
The two chief gifts Heav'n could on Man bestow.”
Book I, lines 1-4
Davideis (1656)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Abraham Cowley40
British writer 1618–1667Related quotes
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Address in Memphis, Tennessee (25 October 1905) http://www.trsite.org/content/pages/speaking-loudly <br class="br">1900s
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Liberty.
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IX
“Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese
No. XXVI
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
“He who enlists a man's mind wields a power even greater than the sword or the scepter.”
Robert L. Heilbroner book The Worldly Philosophers
Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 3
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Josiah Quincy III (14 February 1825)
1820s
“As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 36.
Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein
Act IV, sc. v, Kellermeister (Master of the Cellar)
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
Letter to his Niece (15 September 1842)