Abraham Quotes

O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.

I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

Eternity! How know we but we stand On the precipitous and crumbling verge Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.

Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

The monster London laugh at me.

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.

His time's forever, everywhere his place.

Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.

Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.

Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

[Castellani's testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.

TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.

Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.

I will either be America's greatest president or its last.