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George Stillman Hillard Quotes

1808–1879

George Stillman Hillard (September 22, 1808 – January 21, 1879) was an American lawyer and author. Besides developing his Boston legal practice (with Charles Sumner as a partner), he served in the Massachusetts legislature, edited several Boston journals, and wrote on literature, politics and travel.

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Sooner or later the world comes round to see the truth and do the right.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Life is but another name for action; and he who is without opportunity exists, but does not live.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

The natural instincts of a generous heart shrink from an inveterate hater as the child shrinks from the snake in his path.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

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Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

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A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Men of genius are more apt to feel art than to understand it; and they sometimes mistake that emotion which a work of art calls forth for essential characteristics of the work itself.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

Anger is a fierce and sudden flame, which may be kindled in the noblest breasts; but in these the slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never take the shape and consistency of enduring hatred.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust,
The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

No man can be a great officer who is not infinitely patient of details, for an army is an aggregation of details, a defect in any one of which may destroy or impair the whole. It is a chain of innumerable links, but the whole chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

The venom that chills and curdles the warm current of life in man is secreted only in creeping and cold-blooded creatures; and the inveterate malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the reflection that men who are competent to add to the in-tellectual wealth of the world, and enlarge the domain of knowledge, have learned to take popular applause at its true value, and to find in the faithful discharge of honorable duty a satisfaction which is its own reward.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Stillman Hillard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.