Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world (for what is there in God which is not God?), and he with his own image reached down to humanity.

Popular Topics
Today, Secret, Life Is Good, Poor, Thing, Body, Intelligent, Book, Song, Knowledge, Positive, Job, Possible, Evidence, Story, Beauty, Wonderful, Butterfly, Religion, Organization, Worry, Future, Night, Things In Life, I Miss You, Beach, Quiet, Like, Inspiring, Memorable, Fitness, Alien, Diamond, Smile, Art, Kindly, Lives, Hip Hop, Music, New York, Soccer, Leadership, Stage, America, Enthusiast, Pregnancy, Happy, Thinking, Food, Live
Edwin Percy Whipple

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

Action, Greatness, Immoral, Moral
Same Author Quotes

As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.

Army, Contemptible, Honor, Laughter, Roar, Wall

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Discipline, Happiness, Motivational Sports, Rich, Satisfying

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

Action, Alliance, Alliances, Cheer, Claim

A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.

Character, Degree, Desire, Human, Large, Perfection

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

Earth, Fit, Living, Thought, Walks
Similar Quotes