Jones Very quotes

“We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.”
-- Jones Very

Source : jones very (1839). “assays and poems”, p.39

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“As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.”
-- Jones Very

Source : Jones Very (1839). “Essays and Poems”, p.44

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“From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.”
-- Jones Very

Source : Jones Very (1839). “Essays and Poems”, p.86

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“Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.”
-- Jones Very

Source : Jones Very (1839). “Essays and Poems”, p.89

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“The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.”
-- Jones Very

Source : Jones Very (1993). “Jones Very: The Complete Poems”, p.72, University of Georgia Press

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“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”

“The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.”

“People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.”

“Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam. (4th February 1945)”

“League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.”

“I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.”

“The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.”

“But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.”