Quotes
Quotes about Will
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains
To tax our labours and excise our brains.
Be England what she will,
With all her faults she is my country still.
A moral, sensible, and well-bred man
Will not affront me,--and no other can.
Some must be great. Great offices will have
Great talents. And God gives to every man
The virtue, temper, understanding, taste,
That lifts him into life, and lets him fall
Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill.
Beware of desperate steps! The darkest day,
Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.
Young fellows will be young fellows.
Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.
The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore.
The tree of deepest root is found
Least willing still to quit the ground:
'T was therefore said by ancient sages,
That love of life increased with years
So much, that in our latter stages,
When pain grows sharp and sickness rages,
The greatest love of life appears.
Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,
Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door,
Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span;
Oh give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.
Life! we 've been long together
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
'T is hard to part when friends are dear,--
Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear;
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time;
Say not "Good night," but in some brighter clime
Bid me "Good morning."
Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men.
What constitutes a state?
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Men who their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.
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And sovereign law, that state's collected will,
O'er thrones and globes elate,
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,--our retrospection will be all to the future.
In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
Mine be a cot beside the hill;
A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear;
A willowy brook that turns a mill,
With many a fall, shall linger near.
What will Mrs. Grundy say?
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.
I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first.
