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Charles Buxton Quotes

1823–1871 England

Charles Buxton (18 November 1823 – 10 August 1871) was an English brewer, philanthropist, writer and Member of Parliament.

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Many men’s thoughts are not acorns, but merely pebbles.

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The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand strength.

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You have only to watch other ill-natured people to resolve to be unlike them.

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A successful career has been full of blunders.

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Emulation and imitation are of twin birth.

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Heavy sorrow is silent, and the deepest mourning is the most solitary.

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There are female women, and there are male women.

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Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

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In life, as in chess, one’s own pawns block one’s way. A man’s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him.

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Stint yourself, as you think good, in other things; but don’t scruple freedom in brightening home. Gay furniture and a brilliant garden are a sight day by day, and make late blither.

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What you most repent of is a lasting sacrifice made under an impulse of good-nature. The goodness goes; the sacrifice sticks.

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We men are but poor, weak souls, after all; women beat us out and out in fortitude.

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A nation does wisely, if not well, in starving her men of genius. Fatten them, and they are done for.

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All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

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The first duty toward children is to make them happy. If you have not made them happy, you have wronged them; no other good they may get can make up for that.

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If fortune has fairly sat on a man, he takes it for granted that life consists in being sat upon; but to be coddled on Fortune’s knee, and then have his ears boxed,—that is aggravating.

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Christianity is intensely practical. She has no trait more striking than her common sense.

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Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feel bitter. A man’s venom poisons himself more than his victim.

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Outward things don’t give; they draw out. You find in them what you bring to them. A cathedral makes only the devotional feel devotional; scenery refines only the fine-minded.

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In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Buxton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.