
Talk at Brown University (April 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBfHD2n13OA
Quotes 2010s, 2010
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 193
Talk at Brown University (April 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBfHD2n13OA
Quotes 2010s, 2010
Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 3 (at page 28)
Source: Sanitary Economy (1850), p. 29
Context: In most instances, affectionate relatives and kind friends would wish to prolong the existence of the individual who has reached that age; but if we look at the happiness of mankind in general, we shall find reason to believe that, like all the other general principles of nature, this one carries the impress of an all-wise and beneficent Creator; and that if man had it in his power to alter the arrangement, it may be questioned if he could improve it. At this age the great desires of life are generally accomplished, and the tired laborer in the hardest fields of exertion, which are those of the intellect, has had some years of quiet meditation on the long battle of life to which his days of energy and hope were devoted. The world has, in general, little more use for him; and should he—however meritorious his services, however honored his gray hairs—too long remain an actual living man, seeming to fill a part of the arena in which younger and abler combatants are looking for places, the consciousness of being honored and beloved may give way before the suspicion that he has become an encumbrance to the circle he once adorned.
“Pray for the repose of His soul. He was so tired.”
Source: Hadrian the Seventh (1904), Ch. 24, p. 360
“But who would force the soul tilts with a straw
Against a champion cased in adamant.”
Part III, No. 7 - Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)
“Whilst a Soul supports this mortal Frame,
I never shall forget Eliza's name.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”
Source: Rules of Civility And Other Writings & Speeches
Source: (1974), Ch. 7 : Distributive Justice, Section I, Redistribution and Property Rights, p. 169