Joseph Howe famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
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A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.
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We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
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My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
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Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.
-- Joseph Howe
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal†some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
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Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.
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When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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