Dumas Malone famous quotes

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
-- Dumas Malone

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American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic. . . . The publication, in full and integrated form, of the remarkable correspondence between these two eminent men is a notable event.
-- Dumas Malone

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The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills.
-- Dumas Malone

#War #Government #Church

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.