Jeremiah Seed famous quotes

For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.
-- Jeremiah Seed

#Men #He Man #Admire

Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in a lively representation of ideas assembled together, gives every sensible object those heightening touches, and that striking imagery, which is unknown to men of slower apprehensions: wit being to sensible objects, what light is to bodies; it does not merely show them as they are in themselves: it gives an adventitious colour, which is not a property inherent in them: it lends them beauties which are not their own.
-- Jeremiah Seed

#Men #Light #Ideas

Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.
-- Jeremiah Seed

#Looks #Admiration #Look Up

That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring.
-- Jeremiah Seed

#Powerful #Shining #Wit

It must descend, as the dew, upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
-- Jeremiah Seed

#Fall #Snow #Mind

Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity.
-- Jeremiah Seed

#Mind #Infinity #Infinite

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.
-- Jeremiah Seed

#Men #Envy #Littles

Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error; more humility to acknowledge it; more grace to correct it.
-- Jeremiah Seed

#Humility #Errors #Grace

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not,

The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.

Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.