"Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
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“I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?”
“The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.”
“Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.”
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“And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.”
“Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
“I can say with confidence that I never bought into the hype, and I made sure that the people around me didn't buy into the hype, and I did not surround myself with people who fed me the hype. And I'm glad of that as well.”
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“I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.”
“How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.”
“Men are lead by trifles.”