Benjamin Robbins Curtis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.

  • By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

  • Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

  • The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

  • A divided heart loses both worlds.

  • The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

  • With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

  • 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.

  • The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

  • But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

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