Minot Judson Savage quotes

“The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.”
-- Minot Judson Savage

Source : Minot Judson Savage (1884). “Poems of modern thought”

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“If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and furnishings of this ante-room; and more than that, it will give dignity and purpose to the fleeting days to know they are linked with the eternal things as prelude and preparation.”
-- Minot Judson Savage

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“We say we exchange words when we meet. What we exchange is souls.”
-- Minot Judson Savage

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“For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain”

Source : Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”

“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.”

“I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.”

“Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.”

“When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.”

Source : 'A Shropshire Lad' (1896) no. 4

“A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.”

“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.”

“Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.”

“I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.”

“Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”