Esaias Tegner famous quotes

A sense of justice is a noble fancy.
-- Esaias Tegner

#Justice #Noble #Fancy

In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you cannot clearly say, you don't know:To tongue of man his thought brings word:What's said obscurely is what's thought obscurely.
-- Esaias Tegner

#Men #Tongue #Sun

A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.
-- Esaias Tegner

#Wise #Father #Son

A woman's honor rests on manly love.
-- Esaias Tegner

#Women #Honor #Manly

We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.
-- Esaias Tegner

#Art #Son #Light

O, if so much beauty doth reveal Itself in every vein of life and nature, How beautiful must be the Source itself, The Ever Bright One.
-- Esaias Tegner

#Beauty #Beautiful #Veins

Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.
-- Esaias Tegner

#Beautiful #Truth #Heart

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.

And if you're not buying my dinnner or you think you fancy, you're not getting a date with The Miz!

A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.

The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.

When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.