Louis-Philippe I of France quotes

“The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.”
-- Louis-Philippe I of France

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“Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.”
-- Louis-Philippe I of France

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“You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.”

“God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.”

“The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.”

“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”

“All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.”

“I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.”

Source : Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”

“Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening.”

“It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.”

Source : "'You just don't look disabled'". Interview with Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2010.

“O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.79

“Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.”