“I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 201 of 303
“You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.”
“My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.”
“Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.”
“E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.”
“Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.”
“You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.”
“Approve not of him who commends all you say.”
“You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.”
“In success be moderate.”
“If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.”
“There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.”
“Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.”
“Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.”
“At a great pennyworth pause a while.”
“In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.”
“He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.”
“I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.”
“Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.”
“No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones, practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.”