Samuel Parr famous quotes

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.
-- Samuel Parr

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Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.
-- Samuel Parr

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To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.
-- Samuel Parr

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Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.
-- Samuel Parr

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To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.
-- Samuel Parr

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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the life's progress.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.

So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.