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.
JOHN BROWNI don’t think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.
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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Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!
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Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends…every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.
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The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.
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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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These men are all talk; What is needed is action – action!
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Symptoms are the body’s mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
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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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I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.
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The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.
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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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Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
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I don’t think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.
JOHN BROWN