1872 · Skopia

Showing 17 quotes from 1872

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

1872

★ 5.2

Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty. It shows that a man hasn't sense enough to know whom to despise.

A Pair of Blue Eyes · 1872

★ 4.4

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others.

Middlemarch · 1872

★ 3.9

He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting-grounds for the poetic imagination.

Middlemarch · 1872

★ 3.8

Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbor.

Middlemarch · 1872

★ 3.8

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Middlemarch · 1872

★ 3.8

Political literature

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

1872

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.

Susan B. Anthony

1872

★ 3.7

Paper · Travel writing

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1872

★ 3.5

Political literature

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

1872

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

1872

★ 3.5

Travel literature

When the peremptory challenges were all exhausted, a jury of twelve men was impaneled—a jury who swore they had neither heard, read, talked about nor expressed an opinion concerning a murder which the very cattle in the corrals, the Indians in the sage-brush and the stones in the streets were cognizant of!

1872

★ 2.9

We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind.

Middlemarch · 1872

★ 2.1

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

1872

★ 2.0

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

The Eagle's Nest · 1872

★ 1.9

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

1872

★ 1.1

Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

George MacDonald

Wilfrid Cumbermede · 1872

★ 1.0