1829 · Skopia

Showing 7 quotes from 1829

Brothers, I have listened to a great many talks from our great father. But they always began and ended in this: "Get a little further; you are too near me."

1829

★ 5.2

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. These are periods when... To dare is the highest wisdom.

William Ellery Channing

1829

★ 5.1

Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.

Honore de Balzac

Physiologie du Mariage · 1829

★ 4.5

I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1829

★ 3.8

When the white man had warmed himself before the Indians' fire and filled himself with their hominy, he became very large. With a step he bestrode the mountains, and his feet covered the plains and the valleys. His hands grasped the eastern and the western sea, and his head rested on the moon.

1829

★ 3.5

His Majesty's dominions, on which the sun never sets.

Christopher North

1829

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

1829

★ 1.9