Josiah Johnson Hawes quotes
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“Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not only of morality and the laws, but of religious institutions, and honorably bear his part in supporting them.”
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“He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.”
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“Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently, is the forming, fixing period, the spring season of disposition and habit; and it is during this season, more than any other, that the character assumes its permanent shape and color, and the young are wont to take their course for time and for eternity.”
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“You may be whatever you resolve to be - determine to be something in the world and you will be something. " I cannot," never accomplished anything. "I will try" has worked wonders.”
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“A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.”
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“A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors-the fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action.”
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“We are often able because we think we are able.”
-- Josiah Johnson Hawes
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“A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.”
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“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”
Source : John Stuart Blackie (1858). “On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh”, p.104
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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