Eustace Budgell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
-- Eustace Budgell

#Relationship #Strong #Two
The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
-- Eustace Budgell

#Gratitude #People #May
When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.
-- Eustace Budgell

#Success #Achievement #Victory
When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far.
-- Eustace Budgell

#Victory
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
-- Eustace Budgell

#Two #Principles #Firsts
When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?
-- Eustace Budgell

#Men #Doe #Violence
It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.
-- Eustace Budgell

#Self #Ideas #Desire
The reproach of a friend should be strictly just, but not too frequent.
-- Eustace Budgell

#Should

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.
People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
I get to keep you,â€ he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. â€œKeep me?â€ I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. â€œNot here. I canâ€™t take much more, Pagan. Iâ€™m only so strong,â€ he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. â€œYouâ€™re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.â€ I heard a touch of humor in his voice. â€œItâ€™s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.
Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

Eustace Budgell famous quotes

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