I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.
JOHN BROWN
There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.
More John Brown Quotes
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I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.
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There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.
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I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
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The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.
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The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.
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It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
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I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
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The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.
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So far as I ever observed God’s dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.
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Symptoms are the body’s mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
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I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, – being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.
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Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.
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These men are all talk; What is needed is action – action!
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Now let us thank th’ eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.
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I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.
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I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.
JOHN BROWN