"There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness."

-- Joseph Addison

#Greatness Quotes #Defense Quotes #Obscurity Quotes

“A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.”
“Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.”
“We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.”
“That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.”
“Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.”

Source : Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”
“Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.”
“The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.”

Source : Henry Maudsley (1895). “The Pathology of Mind”
“What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.”

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