Quotes About Samuel

It has been, from age to age, an affectation to love the pleasure of solitude, among those who cannot possibly be supposed qualified for passing life in that manner.Spectator,No 264.

He ended, and his words impression leftOf much amazement to th' infernal crew,Distracted and surpris'd with deep dismayAt these sad tidings.Milton'sParadise Regained,b. i.3.

ÆGILOPS  (Æ'GILOPS)   n.s.[Gr. signifying goat-eyed, the goat being subject to this ailment.] A tumour or swelling in the great corner of the eye, by the root of the nose, either with or without an inflammation: also a plant so called, for its supposed virtues

AMBURY  (A'MBURY)   n.s.A bloody wart on any part of a horse's body.

Lady Olivia enquired after the distance of North hamptonshire. She will make the tour of England, she says, and visit me there. I was obliged to say I should take her visit as an honour. Wicked Politeness! Of how many falshoods dost thou make the people, who are called polite, guilty!

It is a dull and obtuse mind, that must divide in order to distinguish; but it is a still worse that distinguishes in order to divide.

It is an ancyant Marinere, And he stoppeth one of three: 'By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eye Now wherefore stoppest me?

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

What is more pleasing to the Lord: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams. —1 Samuel 15:22

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

The harbor shall be a teapot tonight!

The true laws of God are the laws of our own well-being.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.

And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,Was beat with fist, instead of a stick.

For rhetoric, he could not opeHis mouth, but out there flew a trope.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.