Quotes
Quotes about Cure
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whispered word; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in the sky the stars are met, And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue, And in the heaven that clear obscure, So softly dark, and darkly pure. Which follows the decline of day, As twilight melts beneath the moon away.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station.
I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind.
The palpable obscure.
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [Lat., Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.]
It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
We, that would be known The father of our people, in our study, And vigilance for their safety, must not change Their ploughshares into swords, and force them from The secure shade of their own vines, to be Scorched with the flames of war.
Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
Equality of the general rules of law and conduct, however, is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and the only equality which we can secure without destroying liberty. Not only has liberty nothing to do with any other sort of equality, but it is even bound to produce inequality in many respects. This is the necessary result and part of the justification of individual liberty: if the result of individual liberty did not demonstrate that some manners of living are more successful than others, much of the case for it would vanish.
And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
