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In the lowest stratum of social thraldom, nowhere was the noble soul doomed quite to choke, and die ignobly.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
Such parliamentary bagpipes I myself have heard play tunes, much to the satisfaction of the people.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
Whatsoever is not beaverish seems to go forth in the shape of talk. To such length is human intellect wasted or suppressed in this world!
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
For ignobleness cannot, by the nature of it, choose the noble: no, there needs a seeing man who is himself noble, cognizant by internal experience of the symptoms of nobleness.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
Who would govern that can get along without governing? He that is fittest for it, is of all men the unwillingest unless constrained.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
Human Intellect, if you consider it well, is the exact summary of Human Worth; and the essence of all worth-ships and worships is reverence for that same.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
The Noble in the high place, the Ignoble in the low; that is, in all times and in all countries, the Almighty Maker's Law.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
A healthy hatred of scoundrels.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
To the British subject who fancies genius may be lodged in him, this liberty remains; and truly it is, if well computed, almost the only one he has.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
It is the question of questions. All that Democracy ever meant lies there: the attainment of a truer and truer Aristocracy, or Government again by the Best.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
That, on the whole, if you have got the intrinsic qualities, you have got everything, and the preliminaries will prove attainable; but that if you have got only the preliminaries, you have yet got nothing.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
Tell me what kind of man governs a People, you tell me, with much exactness, what the net sum-total of social worth in that People has for some time been.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
Talk never yet could guide any man's or nation's affairs; nor will it yours, except towards the Limbus Patrum, where all talk, except a very select kind of it, lodges at last.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
The crop of spiritual talent that is born to you, of human nobleness and intellect and heroic faculty, this is infinitely more important than your crops of cotton or corn, or wine or herrings or whale-oil, which the Newspapers record with such anxiety every season.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
These are the two vices that beset Government Offices; both of them originating in insufficient Intellect,—that sad insufficiency from which, directly or indirectly, all evil whatsoever springs!
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
Probably some ninety-nine out of every hundred of our gifted souls, who have to seek a career for themselves, go this beaver road. Whereby the first half-result, national wealth namely, is plentifully realized; and only the second half, or wisdom to guide it, is dreadfully behindhand.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
Wise command, wise obedience: the capability of these two is the net measure of culture, and human virtue, in every man; all good lies in the possession of these two capabilities; all evil, wretchedness and ill-success in the want of these.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
Considered as the last finish of education, or of human culture, worth and acquirement, the art of speech is noble, and even divine; it is like the kindling of a Heaven's light to show us what a glorious world exists, and has perfected itself, in a man.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)